Architectural Patterns

Container building patterns

This section describes a few common ways to build Docker images. As per Alex Collins (https://alexecollins.com/developing-with-docker-building-patterns/), there are several choices: scratch + binary, language stack, and distribution+ package manager. The scratch + binary - scratch is the most basic base image and it does not contain any files or programs at all. We must build a standalone binary application to use this. Here is an example. Firstly, we will build a standalone binary application using Docker. The steps are as follows:

1. Create an empty directory and then create a main.go application:

package mainimport "fmt"// this is a commentfunc main() {    fmt.Println("Hello World")}

2. Compile the application: