Part of my daily routine is to consume, design and deliver services built for HTTP clients. This might manifest in something special like WebSocket, Protobuf but most often a plain JSON REST API. In any case, the performance is key, and an Undertow REST API with JAX-RS can deliver a stable performance under consistent load. In this article, I will cover some basics for setting up and deploying a REST API with Undertow, in Docker.

This post is a walkthrough on my approach to develop and deploy Golang web service in Docker container. There are many reasons for integrating Docker into the daily routine as a developer, one being the simplification of setting up a separated runtime environment. Using containers in production has, even more, advantages from simplified release to better performance. Kubernetes and Docker Swarm is gaining more and more space, which I think is partly because of the simplified management on IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform.