Deploying Go 1.6 web app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Question

I want to deploy my web app to elastic beanstalk but it appears to only support Go 1.4 rather than Go 1.6. Is there a way to get a custom image?

The reason I want 1.6 is because it supports vendoring and my web app depends on 3rd party packages.

Answer 1

The best choice would be to use docker.

Here are the steps to deploy your application to Elastic Beanstalk:

1. Choose the Generic Docker platform when creating a new environment.
2. Put a file named Dockerfile in your project root with the following content:

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FROM golang:1.6.2-onbuild
EXPOSE 80

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3. Add a canonical import path to your main.go. For example, if your package name is my/package the first line of main.go should be package main // import "my/package"
4. Make your application listen on port 80
5. Deploy!