Creating a minimal container image for a Go application

Build executable from Go source code and build Container Image from Alpine base image with binary executable

How hard can it be — to create the smallest possible container image to run a Go application? It is not hard to create a container image that contains an binary executable file — and that is what a Go application turns into during the build process. However, that does not automatically produce a very small image or one that actually can run the application successfully. There are a few things…