# Building a Go Container **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 2, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513 "2016-11-02T08:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/1 "2016-11-02T08:16:38Z")
external-dns is currently not supporting PowerDNS4.0 so I wanted to fix this on my own…but I still try to figure out how to compile [https://github.com/rancher/external-dns](https://github.com/rancher/external-dns) this. Anyone can help me here? ---
**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/2 "2016-11-09T03:30:24Z")
Hello! I have successfully modified that package to support Digital Ocean. If you have any specific questions, please ask, and if I can help I will! ---
**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/3 "2016-11-11T09:50:35Z")
Oh if you could tell me how to compile [https://github.com/rancher/external-dns](https://github.com/rancher/external-dns) this would be great. I strugle somehow with the setup. ---
**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/4 "2016-11-11T18:24:42Z")
I do not have a huge amount of experience in Go, and most of what I’ve done has been scratching my own itch. This tool was written for Go 1.5.2 and used Godeps. I ripped out all the Godeps stuff and bumped up the version to 1.6 and that was fine. What was really frustrating was the absolute imports — every time it referenced itself via “[github.com/rancher/external-dns/something](http://github.com/rancher/external-dns/something)” I had to change that to my fork. I’m not completely sure that that import style is necessary, but my primary goal was to add functionality, not refactor. 🙂 I did do a little refactoring because I couldn’t quite figure out how to make something work after I broke it. I made the provider settable via an environment variable which helped me move forward. It _might_ have been related to the change in Go version. If your goal is for personal use, feel free to fork mine at [github.com/mathuin/external-dns](http://github.com/mathuin/external-dns) and change all the references from mathuin to your Github name and you should be good to go! I _think_ there’s still a bug in my implementation with respect to deleting records, I can’t recall. I should look at that sometime! ---
**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/5 "2016-11-14T12:59:49Z")
Hmm my problem was that i didn’t figure out how to clone the project so that I can compile the project. ---
**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/6 "2016-11-14T14:42:36Z")
Ah, that’s a different issue. The project is on Github as you know. You need to run `git clone https://github.com/rancher/external-dns` on your own computer (that command line is generic, it might be different if you’re not on Linux). That will check out the source code to your system in a directory named `external-dns` in the directory where you executed that command. You will have to rearrange things and rename things as I mention above because of how Go works. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Guido\_Steiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/guido_steiner/32/5862_2.png) [@Guido\_Steiner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Guido_Steiner)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/7 "2017-02-17T13:51:51Z")
Damn…though I could forget this…but now it seam I have to fix this errors on my own. So I install godeps from google and then how can i compile external-dns then? regards Guido ---
**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/building-a-go-container/4513/8 "2017-02-17T19:30:55Z")
I created a script called `buildme.sh` which I have in the top directory (~/go/src/github.com/rancher/external-dns here): ``` #!/bin/bash ./scripts/build cd bin/ tar cf ../packaging/external-dns.tar external-dns gzip -f9 ../packaging/external-dns.tar docker build -t myregistry/mathuin/external-dns ../packaging docker push myregistry/mathuin/external-dns ``` I had to change the packaging Dockerfile as well: ``` FROM alpine:3.2 MAINTAINER Rancher Labs, Inc. RUN apk add --update ca-certificates ENV EXT_DNS_RELEASE v0.6.1 #ADD https://github.com/rancher/external-dns/releases/download/${EXT_DNS_RELEASE}/external-dns.tar.gz /external-dns.tar.gz COPY external-dns.tar.gz /external-dns.tar.gz RUN tar -zxvf /external-dns.tar.gz -C /usr/bin ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/external-dns"] ``` The resulting artifact is a container which I run in my environment as part of an infrastructure stack. Let me know if you have any questions! Jack.