From Source to Service

Ship a static binary

Lesson 5 of 5

CGO_ENABLED=0 gives you one self-contained file, GOOS/GOARCH cross-compiles it anywhere, embed bakes in your assets, and systemd plus Caddy runs it for real.

What you'll learn

Build a fully static binary with CGO_ENABLED=0 and cross-compile with GOOS/GOARCH
Bake static assets into the binary with //go:embed
Run it in production under systemd, behind a Caddy reverse proxy

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