Using Go artifact repositories

To configure Go in a restricted environment, use the GOPROXY environment variable and the Athens module datastore and proxy.

Configuring Go to use a non-standard-registry

Athens is a Go module datastore and proxy with many configuration options. It can be configured to act only as a module datastore and not as a proxy. An administrator can upload their Go modules to the Athens datastore and have them available across their Go projects. If a project tries to access a Go module that is not in the Athens datastore, the Go build fails.

  • To work with Athens, configure the GOPROXY environment variable in the devfile of your CLI container:

    components:
- mountSources: true
  type: dockerimage
  alias: go-cli
  image: 'quay.io/eclipse/che-golang-1.12:7.7.0'
  ...
  - value: /tmp/.cache
    name: GOCACHE
  - value: 'http://your.athens.host'
    name: GOPROXY

Using self-signed certificates in Go projects

Internal artifact repositories often do not have a self-signed TLS certificate signed by an authority that is trusted by default. They are usually signed by an internal company authority or are self-signed. Configure your tools to accept these certificates.

Go uses certificates from a file defined in the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable.

Procedure

  1. Obtain the certificate used by the Athens server in the Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) format. It is customary for administrators to provide certificates of internal artifact servers as Kubernetes secrets (see Importing untrusted TLS certificates to Che). The relevant server certificates will be mounted in /public-certs in every container in the workspace.

  2. Add the appropriate environment variables to your devfile:

    components:
- mountSources: true
  type: dockerimage
  alias: go-cli
  image: 'quay.io/eclipse/che-golang-1.12:7.7.0'
  ...
  - value: /tmp/.cache
    name: GOCACHE
  - value: 'http://your.athens.host'
    name: GOPROXY
  - value: 'on'
    name: GO111MODULE
  - value: '/public-certs/athens-server.cer'
    name: SSL_CERT_FILE
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