• 1.6.2-alpine-onbuild (Dockerfile)
• 1.7.3-alpine-onbuild (Dockerfile)

Note: For more versions of this image please check the base images store page golang

The most straightforward way to use this image is to use a Go container as both the build and runtime environment. In your Dockerfile, writing something along the lines of the following will compile and run your project:

FROM golang:1.6.2-alpine-onbuild

This image includes multiple ONBUILD triggers which should cover most applications. The build will COPY . /go/src/app, RUN go get -d -v, and RUN go install -v.

This image also includes the CMD ["app"] instruction which is the default command when running the image without arguments.

You can then build and run the Docker image:

$ docker build -t my-golang-app .
$ docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-golang-app

Note: the default command in golang:onbuild is actually go-wrapper run, which includes set -x so the binary name is printed to stderr on application startup. If this behavior is undesirable, then adding CMD ["app"] (or CMD ["myapp"] if a Go custom import path is in use) will silence it by running the built binary directly.

There may be occasions where it is not appropriate to run your app inside a container. To compile, but not run your app inside the Docker instance, you can write something like:

$ docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp golang:1.6.2-alpine go build -v

This will add your current directory as a volume to the container, set the working directory to the volume, and run the command go build which will tell go to compile the project in the working directory and output the executable to myapp. Alternatively, if you have a Makefile, you can run the make command inside your container.

$ docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp golang:1.6.2-alpine ash -c make

This image is based on the official golang:XXX-alpine image and only adds the ONBUILD functionality, which in itself has been taken from the official golang:XXX-onbuild image. This README has also been copy pasted and was just slightly modified, mainly to contain the credit section :P and removing the sections not related to onbuild.