To contribute code changes to this project you will need the following development kits.
- Go. Download and install the Go programming language
- docker
When cloning watchtower to your development environment you should place your forked repo within the standard go code structure.
cd $GOPATH/src
mkdir <yourfork>
cd <yourfork>
git clone [email protected]:<yourfork>/watchtower.git
cd watchtowerwatchtower is a go application and is built with go commands. The following commands assume that you are at the root level of your repo.
go get -u github.com/Masterminds/glide # installs glide for vendoring
glide install # retrieves package dependencies
go build # compiles and packages an executable binary, watchtower
go test # runs tests
./watchtower # runs the application (outside of a container)