https://github.com/ko-build/ko

Build and deploy Go applications
https://github.com/ko-build/ko

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Build and deploy Go applications

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ko-build/ko
• Owner: ko-build
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-03-21T19:24:01.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-25T07:50:16.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T15:10:52.095Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: container, containers, deploy, docker, go, golang, kubernetes
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://ko.build
• Size: 46 MB
• Stars: 7,621
• Watchers: 41
• Forks: 399
• Open Issues: 54
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: code-of-conduct.md
  • Roadmap: ROADMAP.md

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README

        
# `ko`: Easy Go Containers

[![GitHub Actions Build Status](https://github.com/ko-build/ko/workflows/Build/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ko-build/ko/actions?query=workflow%3ABuild)

[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/google/ko?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/google/ko)

[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/ko-build/ko)](https://goreportcard.com/report/ko-build/ko)

[![SLSA 3](https://slsa.dev/images/gh-badge-level3.svg)](https://slsa.dev/images/gh-badge-level3.svg)



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> 🎉 Google has applied for `ko` to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Sandbox project! Learn more [here](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/ko-applies-to-become-a-cncf-sandbox-project.html)!

`ko` is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications.

It's ideal for use cases where your image contains a single Go application

without any/many dependencies on the OS base image (e.g., no cgo, no OS package

dependencies).

`ko` builds images by effectively executing `go build` on your local machine,

and as such doesn't require `docker` to be installed. This can make it a good

fit for lightweight CI/CD use cases.

`ko` makes [multi-platform builds](https://ko.build/features/multi-platform/) easy, produces [SBOMs](https://ko.build/features/sboms/) by default, and includes support for simple YAML templating which makes it a powerful tool for [Kubernetes applications](https://ko.build/features/k8s/).

# [Install `ko`](https://ko.build/install/) and [get started](https://ko.build/get-started/)!

### Acknowledgements

This work is based heavily on experience from having built the [Docker](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker) and [Kubernetes](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_k8s) support for [Bazel](https://bazel.build).

That work was presented [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS1aiQqgUTA).

### Discuss

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

Come discuss `ko` with us in the `#ko-build` channel on the [Kubernetes Slack](https://slack.k8s.io)!

See you there!

### Community Meetings

You can find all the necessary details about the community meetings in this [page](https://ko.build/community).