Basic Web Application

In this example, we’ll walk through an example of enabling preview environments for a simple Go application, built via a cloud-native buildpack. The sample repository can be found here.

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porter.yaml File Walkthrough

The porter.yaml file for this application is as follows:

version: "v1"
resources:
  - name: "go-sample"
    source:
      name: "web"
    config:
      build:
        method: "pack"
      values:
        container:
          command: "go-getting-started"
          port: 8080
          env:
            normal:
              BPE_PORT: "8080"
              BP_KEEP_FILES: "static/*"

• source: By only setting the source.name field to web, Porter will deploy this as a web application.
• config.build: specifying the config.build.method field as pack instructs Porter to build this application using cloud-native buildpacks.
• config.values: here, we set common configuration settings, such as the start command, the port that the application runs on, and environment variables for the application.