Deploying go https servers

[Sankar]

Hi

I have written a golang REST API server and a react webapp that talks to this REST server. There is a mysql server that the golang server talks to. There is an init script with a bunch of SQL statements to create a few tables and indexes. Everything works fine in my local machine. I have bought a domain name too. I have a VM on cloud with ssh access. 

I wanted to find out if there are any good blog posts or talks or tutorials or "checklists" documenting the process to deploy such a golang server + a web front end behind a domain name (example.com for the react webapp and api.example.com for the golang) and both accessible only via HTTPS, with the API Server probably behind a load balancer, and all certificates being valid, etc.

I understand that I can use kubernetes for such orchestration. But I wanted to find out a deploy solution which could work reliably and easily (without depending on too many third party projects) on AWS. GKE does not exist in my region (India) and so cannot use Kube. Any pointers ?

Thanks.

Sankar

[Shawn Milochik]

That sounds a good use-case for Ansible to me. It's pretty easy to use and get started. 

[Sankar P]

I am looking more for a checklist of things to do, rather than a set of tools.

2017-03-09 0:38 GMT+05:30 Shawn Milochik <shawn...@gmail.com>:

That sounds a good use-case for Ansible to me. It's pretty easy to use and get started. 

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[Dragos Harabor]

Does this help?
https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/exposing-go-on-the-internet/

On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 7:49:37 PM UTC-8, Sankar wrote:

I am looking more for a checklist of things to do, rather than a set of tools.

2017-03-09 0:38 GMT+05:30 Shawn Milochik <shawn...@gmail.com>:

That sounds a good use-case for Ansible to me. It's pretty easy to use and get started. 

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[Sankar P]

Wow. This is a fantastic post. Thanks for sharing. I was expecting something like this only. 

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[Manlio Perillo]

Il giorno venerdì 10 marzo 2017 05:43:44 UTC+1, Dragos Harabor ha scritto:

Does this help?
https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/exposing-go-on-the-internet/

Nginx will do much more things for you, in addition of providing additional "security":

1) Serve custom pages in case of Go server out of service, as an example during an upgrade

2) Will server static files better, compared to Go standard HTTP server

3) Will provide a load balancing

When I deploy a web application written in Go I always use:

- Nginx as frontend

- Systemd as process manager

- Logrotate for log rotation

Manlio

[Kevin Powick]

I know you're just looking for a checklist, but we found it better to use Caddy (built in Go) as our web, and then have our Go API service proxied via that.  It's pretty awesome because it's so easy to use Caddy in that way.

For example :

http://mydomain/mypage will serve up your page, but you can tell Caddy to route requests for http://mydomain/api/dosomething to the port behind your firewall that your Go service is running on.

Caddy also allows gives you http2 and automatic security via https

https://caddyserver.com/

For us, the big advantage is that we could focus on our Go API service being only that, and not a web page server as well.

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[Sankar P]

Just curios to know if I am going to use kubernetes for deployment, would choosing Caddie make any difference (either good or bad) ? I will investigate myself later, but wanted to know your opinion, incase you have already done that. Thanks.

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[Kevin Powick]

I haven't done that, but with what little I do know about that type of deployment, I cannot see how choosing Caddy would make any difference.

If you do go that route, I would appreciate hearing about any success or problems that you have.

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