/golang-github-actions-example

GitHub Actions example using Golang application

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GitHub Actions example using Golang applicaiton

Jobs created in GitHub actions pipeline

  • build - used to build the whole application
  • test - used to execute the test cases along with checking the test coverage
  • deploy - used to deploy the image of this application to docker hub

CI pipeline defined in this file - pipeline.yaml

DockerHub link of this application - shaikrasheed99/golang-github-actions-example

How to run the application

We can run this application by two ways

  1. Make sure your machine has golang installed in it.

    • Run the below command to download the code from Github repository to your local machine.
      git clone https://github.com/shaikrasheed99/golang-github-actions-example.git
    • Run the below command to move to the application directory.
      cd golang-github-actions-example/
    • Run the below command to install all the dependencies of the application.
      go mod tidy
    • Run the below command to run the application for testing the APIs.
      go run .
  2. Make sure your machine has docker installed in it.

    • Run the below command to pull the Image from Dockerhub to your local machine.
      docker pull shaikrasheed99/golang-github-actions-example
    • The Golang application which inside this image is using port 8080.
    • Run the following command in the terminal to start the container.
      docker run -d -p 8080:8080 shaikrasheed99/golang-github-actions-example

How to test the APIs of application

Totally, we have three simple test APIs

Test API - 1

Request curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8080/test1'

Response "This is first test api"

Test API - 2

Request curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8080/test2'

Response "This is second test api"

Test API - 3

Request curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8080/test3'

Response "This is third test api"