heroku-buildpack-go

Heroku's classic buildpack for Go apps

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Heroku's classic buildpack for Go apps

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2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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kristianp·Mar 8, 2017

You can use Go with Heroku, with a buildpack [1]. There's a free plan, but it doesn't include SSL. [1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-go

In Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

benologist·Oct 11, 2013

I'm not but you might be able to use this: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks plus https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go

In Ask HN: where you are hosting Go apps?

pearkes·Aug 29, 2013

If you're like me and make golang apps with private packages on GitHub, you're going to have a bad time deploying to Heroku. This is because the heroku buildpack for go has to `go get github.com/user/private-repo` the necessary packages. Public repos work fine for this, but private repos need credentials. There's a few reasons this isn't easy on Heroku. I ended up working around it[1] but am still not happy with the security implications. [1] https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go/issues/17#issuecom...

In Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku

bgentry·Mar 28, 2012

Congrats to the Go team! I've been looking forward to this release for a while. Go makes it easy to do some very complex things, and much of this can be attributed to the wonderfully built standard library. For those interested, you can run Go apps on Heroku using this buildpack: https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go Note: you may need to use the #rc branch until its changes are merged in master

In Go version 1 is released