Build Docker with Go app: cannot find package - docker

Question

I have my Dockerfile in the root of directory with src/myapp folder, myapp contains myapp.go with main package.
Dockerfile looks like following:
FROM golang:1.9.2
ADD . /
RUN go build myapp;
ENTRYPOINT ["/go/bin/myapp"]
I get following error:
can't load package: package myapp: cannot find package "myapp" in any of:
/usr/local/go/src/myapp (from $GOROOT)
/go/src/myapp (from $GOPATH)
What am I doing wrong? Can I log ls command after docker has done ADD?

Answer 1

You are copying all the files to Image root directory, Didn't installed any dependencies, Trying to Build it and then run the binary from /go/bin/app. The binary doesn't exists in that directory and it's generating errors.
I would recommend using a Dockerfile like this,
FROM golang:1.9.2
ADD . /go/src/myapp
WORKDIR /go/src/myapp
RUN go get myapp
RUN go install
ENTRYPOINT ["/go/bin/myapp"]
This'll do the following.
Copy project files to /go/src/myapp.
Set Working directory to /go/src/myapp.
Install dependencies, I used go get but replace it with which ever dependency management tool you are using.
Install/build the binary.
Set entry point.
You can run ls or any other command using docker exec.
Example:
docker exec <image name/hash> ls
You can also enter the shell in the generated image to understand it well using
docker run --rm -it <image hash/name> /bin/sh

Answer 2

After experiments I've come to this way of building Golang apps.
This way has several advantages:
dependencies are installed on build stage
if you need you may uncomment test options
build first fully-functional image about 800 MB
copies your program to an fresh empty image and produces very small image about 10 MB
Dockerfile:
# Two-stage build:
# first FROM prepares a binary file in full environment ~780MB
# second FROM takes only binary file ~10MB
FROM golang:1.9 AS builder
RUN go version
COPY . "/go/src/github.com/your-login/your-project"
WORKDIR "/go/src/github.com/your-login/your-project"
#RUN go get -v -t .
RUN set -x && \
#go get github.com/2tvenom/go-test-teamcity && \
go get github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep && \
dep ensure -v
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o /your-app
CMD ["/your-app"]
EXPOSE 8000
#########
# second stage to obtain a very small image
FROM scratch
COPY --from=builder /your-app .
EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["/your-app"]

Answer 3

For go 1.11 , you can use go module, the following is example
FROM alpine AS base
RUN apk add --no-cache curl wget
FROM golang:1.11 AS go-builder
WORKDIR /go/app
COPY . /go/app
RUN GO111MODULE=on CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o /go/app/main /go/app/cmd/myapp/main.go
FROM base
COPY --from=go-builder /go/app/main /main
CMD ["/main"]

Answer 4

The official docs suggests the following Dockerfile:
FROM golang:1.8
WORKDIR /go/src/app
COPY . .
RUN go get -d -v ./...
RUN go install -v ./...
CMD ["app"]
Please, visit https://hub.docker.com/_/golang for more info

Answer 5

myapp needs to be in /go/src/myapp as suggested, or in /usr/local/go/src/myapp. You can add it in ADD section.

Answer 6

If the objective is to create a container that simply runs your binary, I would take different approach.
First build the binary for linux:
GOOS=linux CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -a -installsuffix cgo
Then build a lightweight docker image from scratch:
FROM scratch
COPY myApp
CMD ["/myApp"]