Go

Go is very attractive language for microservices’ development, but using acim/go-reflex image and docker-compose you can run multiple microservices including your gateway on your local machine. This image can run virtually any Go server based application and also reacts on changes in the code and recompiles the binary on the fly. If you want to debug your microservices’ stack or develop a new feature where you have to touch multiple services, this is very good tool to do so. Let’s take a look at the docker-compose stack example:

Do you develop or plan to develop a Kubernetes native application in Golang, controller or operator? Such application strongly depends on being inside Kubernetes and development outside of Kubernetes may be a real hassle. Usually you have to build an image over and over again and restart the pod (with imagePullPolicy set to Always). This is very boring and time consuming procedure.

Few months ago I wrote an article about replacing Minikube with MicroK8s , but now we have even better soluion, kind . Like dind allows running Docker inside Docker containers, kind allows running Kubernetes inside Docker containers. kind basically abstracts nodes as Docker containers and then runs Kubernetes inside.