Building Microservices with Go

Docker Ignore files

The .dockerignore file is similar to a git ignore file before the CLI sends the context to the Engine, it excludes files and directories that match patterns in the .dockerignore file. It uses the patterns which are defined in Go's filepath.Match rules you can find more information about them in the following Go documentation: https://godoc.org/path/filepath#Match

Rule	Behavior
# comment	Ignored.
*/temp*	Exclude files and directories whose names start with temp in any immediate subdirectory of the root. For example, the plain file /somedir/temporary.txt is excluded, as is the directory /somedir/temp.
*/*/temp*	Exclude files and directories starting with temp from any subdirectory that is two levels ...