Golang in Docker without disabling CGO on Alpine

It is impossible to compile and run Go program in Docker right away. When you try it, you will get not found error. This is caused by CGO. Most resolutions found on the Internet suggest to disable CGO.

$ CGO_ENABLED=0 go install -a [your_package]

This will fix the issue, but what if you want CGO enabled? I've prepared docker file based on Alpine Linux which resolves the issue:

FROM alpine:edge AS build
# Change versions to current ones
RUN apk update &&  apk upgrade && apk add --update go=1.8.3-r0 gcc=6.3.0-r4 g++=6.3.0-r4
WORKDIR /app
ENV GOPATH /app
ADD src /app/src
RUN go get server # server is name of our application
RUN CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux go install -a server

FROM alpine:edge
WORKDIR /app
RUN cd /app
COPY --from=build /app/bin/server /app/bin/server
CMD ["bin/server"]

With this dockerfile, everything will work as expected. Reason for this issue is that Go from Golang docker image is compiled with standard libraries which are located under /lib64 directory. Alpine use /lib folder to store it's libraries thus Go executable cannot find them. We resolve this issue by downloading gcc, g++, and go packages right from Alpine repository and use them. With this solution you use all packages from the same Alpine environment.