README.md

Go REST API on Kubernetes

Demo REST API using Go. Easily deployable to Kubernetes.

Running Locally

First, in main.go, change DbHost to localhost

Via Docker Compose

1. docker-compose up

Manually

Database

1. docker run -d --name posts-api-go -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres-dev -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=not-for-prod -e POSTGRES_DB=dev -v posts-api-go-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data -p 5432:5432 postgres:latest

API

1. go run main.go
2. Starts @ http://localhost:8080

Kubernetes

1. Create a Kubernetes cluster, e.g. GKE
2. Run kompose convert
3. Create a zip of the entire project folder
4. Upload zip via Cloud Shell
5. Unzip
6. chmod +x kubectl.sh
7. ./kubectl.sh