The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments

Post by synergy20 » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:08 AM UTC

cookiengineer wrote: post #201

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very true, for Go though if you need CGO it's hard to make a single executable, otherwise it is great. I run a few Go apps, all are single executables, upgrading to new releases has never been easier. if you have a network oriented application, nothing beats golang as far as release|maintenance is concerned.

In the malware reverse engineering scene, there are a lot of forks of the upstream "debug" go library, because it allows loading, parsing, compiling and executing libraries from disk (rather than in-kernel or in-userspace) because it is independent of dlopen. And there's also "purego" as an implementation that directly generates shellcode. Maybe those will help you, too? I am just mentioning these because for my use…

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 6:25 AM UTC

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Java never needed Docker, in fact the Docker / Kubernetes is now re-inventing Java Application Servers with WASM containers.

XML ruined Java.

Post by ihateolives » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 8:47 AM UTC

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We also install the JRE separately, but each app is a single executable (by Java) jar, which stands up a jetty instance when run. We also add a yml for configuration. It's a much better packaging & deploy story than frontend code or python.

Java comes the closest of any of the languages to Go’s static binary.

Post by Joker_vD » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 10:11 AM UTC

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type Kind enum { Simple, Complex, Emacs, } const kindStrings [Kind]string = { "simple", "complex", "emacs", } func (k Kind) String() string { return kindStrings[k] } func t() { var a = Kind.Emacs - Kind.Simple // a has type int and value 2 var b = Kind.Simple + Kind.Emacs // type error var c = Kind.Simple + 1 // type error var d = len(Kind) // d has type int and value 3 for k := range Kind { fmt.Printf("%v\n", k) //…

How is this any different than Go's existing enumerations, aside from the enumeration also creating an implicit list structure which, while kind of neat, isn't really a property of enumerations. The parent is likely lamenting that Go doesn't enforce compile-time value constraints on enumerated sets like some languages do, but many other languages don't ether. Not even Typescript does. If Typescript doesn't find it im…

    typedef enum {
        KindSimple,
        KindComplex,
        KindEmacs,
        Kind_NUM_VALUES
    } Kind;

    k, err := Kind(42)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

Post by twic » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 10:58 AM UTC

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #198

twic wrote: post #93

I feel like i'm taking crazy pills (at a low dose) when i read this stuff. I deploy Java applications. In a runnable condition, they aren't a single file, but they aren't many - maybe a dozen jars plus some scripts. Our build process puts all that in a tarball. Deployment comprises copying the tarball to the server, then unpacking it [1]. That is one step more than deploying a single binary, but it's a trivial step,…

Without any prior knowledge you can run my little go program on your computer. Can that be said about your program with other people?