What is it?

This is just a quick and dirty example of how the deployment of a go web application could look like with debian packages. For this purpose a hello world martini application is build and packaged with the help of invoke and fpm.

Dependencies

• invoke
• fpm
• and golang

Building the deb file

1. cd hello_martini
2. invoke build_deb --config configs/go.dajool.com.yaml
   invoke then creates the needed folder structure and generates all the configs and post-/pre-install scripts we want in this demo. You might want to change the domain_name if you actually want to install this package. Also take a look at the folder structure first.

Installation

Since this package comes with a nginx config and launches the go-binary with supervisor (which could easily be replaced by a upstart or systemd script), everything is up and running after a simple dpkg -i go-test-dajool_0.20140312~213054_all.deb – or, if you have your own debian repository, apt-get install go-test-dajool.

You can easily adopt this to other packaging systems. fpm also supports e.g. RPM.