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artourer
artourer

Reputation: 33

How I can make autorestarts golang application in Docker container?

I have the Docker container with Golang and Mongo. I want to make telegram bot, and I want to auto recompile/rerun my go application when I change source code. I tried to use mitranim/gow but it didn't work.

What I need to use for auto rerun my go application after change source code? I need anything seems nodemon for nodejs, but for go

Here my docker-compose and dockerfile configs.

My host machine is win10

Upvotes: 2

Views: 830

Answers (1)

b0gusb
b0gusb

Reputation: 4731

Most file monitoring tools on Linux use as their preferred mechanism inotify. The tool you mentioned mitranim/gow seems to fall into the same category.

The issue is that a change to the filesystem in Windows does not cause the Linux guest to publish the event. This is kind of expected because Windows doesn't "know" a watch has been set, and therefore cannot notify the Linux container when a file has changed. It is a common problem for virtualized environments or other cross-platform / over-the-network file system sharing solutions.

There is similar issue you might want to have a look to: Inotify on shared drives does not work

A possible solution to the problem is to use polling. nodemon has a legacyWatch flag and can run any command when a file changes:

In some networked environments (such as a container running nodemon reading across a mounted drive), you will need to use the legacyWatch: true which enables Chokidar's polling.

Example:

nodemon --legacy-watch <working-dir> -e go --exec "go run main.go"

Or use nodemon in combination with other monitoring tools by having nodemon touching a file when it detects a file change (kind of a hack):

nodemon --legacy-watch <working-dir> -e go --exec "touch main.go"

Upvotes: 1

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