Starterkit for a Golang Web-Server with Connection to MariaDB (MySQL Engine) and a REST-API

Docker-Compose based Setup including installation and startup script It uses the following technologies:

• Docker-Compose for the Deployment of all components
• MariaDB (with MySQL Database engine) running in its own container
• Golang application that connects to the database
• GORM (Object-Relational-Mapper) for storing and retrieving data from database
• Gorilla Mux as a HTTP-Framework for serving the REST API
• Govendor as a vendoring tool

To simply start the application, use: sudo sh startup.sh. This script includes the Docker and Docker-compose instalaltion for Ubuntu. For a simple run use docker-compose up

The valid HTTP Requests can be found under: api_requests.postman_collection.json. It can be imported into POSTMAN.