{"id":11555,"date":"2025-08-10T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:27:42","slug":"a-simple-web-api-in-various-languages-and-deployable-to-kubernetes-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/a-simple-web-api-in-various-languages-and-deployable-to-kubernetes-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple web API in various languages and deployable to Kubernetes (Go)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing this short series of writing a simple echo service web API along with the docker and k8s requirements, we&#8217;re now going to turn our attention to a Go implementation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Implementation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using JetBrains GoLand for this project, so I created a project named <em>echo_service<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t exist add the go.mod file or update it to have following<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: go; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nmodule echo_service\r\n\r\ngo 1.24\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>add a main.go file with the following<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: go; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\npackage main\r\n\r\nimport (\r\n\t&quot;fmt&quot;\r\n\t&quot;net\/http&quot;\r\n)\r\n\r\nfunc livezHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\r\n\tw.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)\r\n\tw.Write(&#x5B;]byte(&quot;ok\\n&quot;))\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunc readyzHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\r\n\tw.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)\r\n\tw.Write(&#x5B;]byte(&quot;ok\\n&quot;))\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunc echoHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {\r\n\ttext := r.URL.Query().Get(&quot;text&quot;)\r\n\tfmt.Fprintf(w, &quot;Go Echo: %s\\n&quot;, text)\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunc main() {\r\n\thttp.HandleFunc(&quot;\/echo&quot;, echoHandler)\r\n\thttp.HandleFunc(&quot;\/livez&quot;, livezHandler)\r\n\thttp.HandleFunc(&quot;\/readyz&quot;, readyzHandler)\r\n\r\n\tfmt.Println(&quot;Echo service running on port 8080...&quot;)\r\n\terr := http.ListenAndServe(&quot;:8080&quot;, nil)\r\n\tif err != nil {\r\n\t\tfmt.Println(&quot;Failed to start the service&quot;)\r\n\t\treturn\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Dockerfile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next up we need to create our Dockerfile<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nFROM golang:1.24-alpine\r\nWORKDIR \/app\r\nCOPY . .\r\nRUN go build -o echo_service .\r\nCMD &#x5B;&quot;.\/echo_service&quot;]\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>Note: In Linux port 80 might be locked down, hence we use port 8080 by default.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To build this, run <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ndocker build -t putridparrot.echo_service:v1 .\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t forget to change the name to your preferred name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and to test this, run<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ndocker run -p 8080:8080 putridparrot.echo_service:v1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Kubernetes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If all wen well we&#8217;ve not tested our application and see it working from a docker image, so now we need to create the deployment etc. for Kubernete&#8217;s. Let&#8217;s assume you&#8217;ve pushed you image to Docker or another container registry such as Azure &#8211; I&#8217;m call my container registry <em>putridparrotreg<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not going to use helm at this point as I just want a (relatively) simple yaml file to run from kubectl, so create a deployment.yaml file, we&#8217;ll store all the configurations, deployment, service and ingress in this one file jus for simplicity.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\napiVersion: apps\/v1\r\nkind: Deployment\r\nmetadata:\r\n  name: echo\r\n  namespace: dev\r\n  labels:\r\n    app: echo\r\nspec:\r\n  replicas: 1\r\n  selector:\r\n    matchLabels:\r\n      app: echo\r\n  template:\r\n    metadata:\r\n      labels:\r\n        app: echo\r\n    spec:\r\n      containers:\r\n      - name: echo\r\n        image: putridparrotreg\/putridparrot.echo_service:v1\r\n        ports:\r\n        - containerPort: 8080\r\n        resources:\r\n          requests:\r\n            memory: &quot;100Mi&quot;\r\n            cpu: &quot;100m&quot;\r\n          limits:\r\n            memory: &quot;200Mi&quot;\r\n            cpu: &quot;200m&quot;\r\n        livenessProbe:\r\n          httpGet:\r\n            path: \/livez\r\n            port: 8080\r\n          initialDelaySeconds: 30\r\n          periodSeconds: 10\r\n        readinessProbe:\r\n          httpGet:\r\n            path: \/readyz\r\n            port: 8080\r\n          initialDelaySeconds: 5\r\n          periodSeconds: 5\r\n\r\n---\r\napiVersion: v1\r\nkind: Service\r\nmetadata:\r\n  name: echo_service\r\n  namespace: dev\r\n  labels:\r\n    app: echo\r\nspec:\r\n  type: ClusterIP\r\n  selector:\r\n    app: echo \r\n  ports:\r\n  - name: http\r\n    port: 80\r\n    targetPort: 8080\r\n    protocol: TCP\r\n---\r\napiVersion: networking.k8s.io\/v1\r\nkind: Ingress\r\nmetadata:\r\n  name: echo-ingress\r\n  namespace: dev\r\n  annotations:\r\n    kubernetes.io\/ingress.class: &quot;nginx&quot;\r\n    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io\/rewrite-target: \/\r\nspec:\r\n  rules:\r\n  - host: mydomain.com\r\n    http:\r\n      paths:\r\n      - path: \/\r\n        pathType: Prefix\r\n        backend:\r\n          service:\r\n            name: echo_service\r\n            port:\r\n              number: 80\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to change the &#8220;host&#8221; and image to suit, also this assume you created a namespace &#8220;dev&#8221; for your app. See <a href=\"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/creating-a-local-container-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creating a local container registry<\/a> for information on setting up your own container registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing this short series of writing a simple echo service web API along with the docker and k8s requirements, we&#8217;re now going to turn our attention to a Go implementation. Implementation I&#8217;m using JetBrains GoLand for this project, so I created a project named echo_service. 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