Golang AWS Fargate Service Boilerplate

Boilerplate code of AWS Fargate service with Go deployed with AWS CDK.

Batteries included:

Service logic stub in Go
Using Go modules
Using AWS services in container (S3)
Granting permissions to call AWS services
Multi-stage build
Testing in build container
Running locally as an app
Running locally in Docker container
Deployment as a AWS Fargate service
Deployment to AWS using AWS CDK

Installation:

Clone the repo
Have Docker installed
Install AWS CDK: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/getting_started.html
Run cd cdk; npm install
Configure AWS profile using aws configure
Check the profile is setup using aws s3 ls --profile default (if you want to use another AWS profile - edit AWS_PROFILE variable in Makefile)
Deploy the stack using make deploy
Enjoy!
Undeploy the stack using make destroy

Commands (see Makefile for details):

make run - run locally as an app
make run_docker - run locally in Docker container
make build - build Linux executable
make build_docker - build Docker container
make test - run tests locally
make deploy - deploys the stack to AWS (using default AWS profile)
make destroy - destroys the stack