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		regecks on Sept 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deploying Go servers with Docker This seems strange to me. What is the point of installing Go on (presumably) your production servers? Seems like you could just an easily cross-compile a release binary and put THAT in the Docker image.

kelseyhightower on Sept 27, 2014 [–]

Many people do just that. Here is a post I wrote outlining the details, including how to handle cases where you want to disable CGO, but still need access to an SSL cert bundle. https://medium.com/@kelseyhightower/optimizing-docker-images...

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