Simple Docker Server

A guided hands-on project completed as part of the "Learn Docker" course by Boot.dev. This repository serves as a learning artifact and demonstrates how to containerise a simple HTTP server written in Go.

Purpose

This project was created to practise:

• building Go binaries
• writing Dockerfiles
• running containers with environment variables

Key Features

• Language: Go (standard library only)
• Base image: Debian (stable-slim)
• Configuration: Port configurable via the PORT environment variable

Getting Started

1. Build the binary (WSL2/Linux)

go build -o goserver main.go

2. Build the Docker image

docker build -t goserver .

3. Run the container

docker run -p 8991:8991 -e PORT=8991 goserver