Building RESTful Web services with Go

Deploying Our REST services

In this chapter, we are going to see how to deploy our Go applications using a few tools such as Nohup and Nginx. To make a website visible to the internet, we need to have a Virtual Private Server (VPS) and deployment tools. We will first see how to run a Go executable and make it a background process using Nohup. Next, we will install Nginx and configure it to proxy the Go server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• What is an Nginx proxy server?
• Learning Nginx server blocks
• Load balancing strategies in Nginx
• Deploying our Go service using Nginx
• Rate limiting and securing our Nginx proxy server
• Monitoring our Go service using a tool called Supervisord