Building RESTful Web services with Go

Installing a Kong database and Kong

First, install the PostgreSQL DB. One condition is that we need to expose the 5432 port. The user and database name should be kong, and that should be passed as environment variables to the container:

docker run -d --name kong-database \              -p 5432:5432 \              -e "POSTGRES_USER=kong" \              -e "POSTGRES_DB=kong" \              postgres:9.4

This command works in this way:

1. Get me an image from the Docker repository called postgres:9.4.
2. Give a name to the image called kong-database.
3. Set environment variables in the container called POSTGRES_USER and POSTGRES_DB.

This creates a Docker container by pulling a PostgreSQL image, which is hosted on the DockerHub (https://hub.docker.com/) repository. Now, apply the migrations required by ...