When containerizing your Go application, . Instead, use Docker's native environment injection:
If you’ve worked on Go applications that interact with databases, APIs, or external services, you know the pain of managing configuration across different environments (local, staging, production). Hardcoding values is brittle, and using a single .env file often leads to accidental commits of secrets or messy overrides. .env.go.local
: Contains default values shared across the entire team (committed to source control). When containerizing your Go application,
By combining this naming convention with the godotenv library, you create a developer experience that is both flexible and secure. When containerizing your Go application
that should never be committed to version control.
import _ "embed"