This is a sample project that aims to learn and practice a Go language based web service backend. The key technologies used are summarised below.

• Golang 1.18

• PostgreSQL 12 (docker)
• Entity Relationship Diagrams tool: dbdiagram.io
• Schema migration: Golang Migrate
• Golang PostgreSQL driver: lib/pq
• SQL query to Golang compiler: sqlc

• Web Framework: Gin
• Security Token: PASETO
• Optional token: JWT

• Testify (Beware of upcoming v2)
• gomock
• Postman

• Docker Desktop

• Viper (Beware of upcoming v2)

Every time a pull request is merged into master, Github workflow will create a docker image and push into AWS ECR.

• AWS RDS, ECR, Secret Manager, IAM, EKS
• AWS CLI
• Github workflow, action, and repository secret
• jq (comman-line JSON processor)
• k8s
• k9s terminal based UI to interact with k8s clusters.
• cert-manager TLS certificate agent for k8s
• letsencrypt Certificate Authority

• aws cli login to ecr command:

aws ecr get-login-password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 796755891642.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com