Ghoul - Golang API starter kit & project templates

Ghoul is a Golang starter kit for developing API backend services. It is designed to help you kickstart your project, skipping the 'setting-up part' and jumping straight to writing business logic. View more details at README_ghoul.MD.

Prerequisites

• Go ^1.12.4
• Docker ^18.09.2
• Docker Compose ^1.23.2
• Chamber ^2.2.0
• Apex ^1.0.0
• Up ^1.3.0
• AWS CLI ^1.16.14
• jq ^1.6.0
• fswatch ^1.14.0
• go-swagger ^0.21.0

Getting started

1. Initialize the app for the first time:

   make provision
   

2. Generate swagger API docs:

   make specs
   

3. Run the development server:

   make start
   

The application runs as an HTTP server at port 8080. You can log in as superadmin to the application by:

POST /login HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "username": "superadmin",
    "password": "superadmin123!@#"
}

Then grab the access_token for authorization HTTP header:

GET /v1/users HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ...

Deployment

To AWS Lambda

First thing first, set up a proper aws credentials on your machine following this instruction: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

The profile name must be the same as the one in up.$stage.json file, for example apex_up. The user must have these all policies: https://apex.sh/docs/up/credentials/#iam_policy_for_up_cli

After that, check the .env file for all the configurations, most of them are ok with default value. For all credentials & secret keys, they are and should be stored securely on AWS SSM Parameter Store.

Using chamber to set secrets (being encrypted by KMS) into SSM Parameter Store:

# E.g: for staging environment
chamber write ghoul-api/staging host "$HOST"
chamber write ghoul-api/staging db_psn "$DB_PSN"
chamber write ghoul-api/staging jwt_secret "$MIN_32_CHARS_RANDOM_STRING"

To deploy to staging environment:

make stg.deploy

or production environment:

make prod.deploy