Golang production web application configuration

Question

For those of you running Go backends in production:

What is your stack / configuration for running a Go web application?

I haven\'t seen much on this topic b

Answer 1

You can bind your binary to a socket to Internet domain privileged ports (port numbers less than 1024) using setcap

setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /path/to/binary

1. This command needs to be escalated. sudo as necessary
2. Every new version of your program will result in a new binary that will need to be reauthorized by setcap

setcap documentation

cap_net_bind_service documentation