Project Title

A repository template for containerised backend workers written in the Go language.

Comes with:

• containerised MySQL image
• 1-command service composition for all services, external and Go alike: docker-compose.yml
• CI pipeline to run in GitHub: GHA CI Workflow
• helper Go functions and structs for the DB layer using Gorm

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go
• Docker
• docker compose

How to Run

1. Run docker compose up -d --remove-orphans --build in the root of the repo to start the

• MySQL instance
• Go worker service

2. Run docker compose down -v to bring down all infrastructure and stop all the services

Run the tests

The automated test suite can be run through the command below, executed in the root of this repository.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.ci.yml up --remove-orphans --force-recreate --build --exit-code-from sut