Best practices for putting your Go application in a container

In recent years, containerization has revolutionized the way software engineers deploy and manage software applications. By encapsulating an application along with its dependencies into a lightweight, portable container, containerization provides numerous benefits, including consistency, scalability, and portability for our applications. This approach has gained widespread adoption across industries and is considered a standard practice for modern software development and deployment workflows.

Containerization is essential to software nowadays as it ensures consistency by packaging the application and its dependencies into a single unit, eliminating the infamous and dreaded “it works on my machine” problem This consistency extends to different environments, including production, reducing the risk of configuration drift. It also allows scalability on demand, as it is efficient to add or remove instances of...