Config for building a golang 1.8 application with glide vendoring on gitlab-ci

.gitlab-ci-golang-glide.yml

image: golang:1.8-alpine # The alpine builds are much smaller but lack tools we need, we'll add them later
stages:
  - build
  - test

before_script:
  - apk --update --upgrade add git curl-dev openssh curl ca-certificates # This is how we add system dependencies. 
                                                                         # You may need less or more packages for your app.
  - curl -sS https://glide.sh/get | sh
  - mkdir -p /go/src/gitlab.com/
  - cp -r /builds/[your-user] /go/src/gitlab.com/[your-user]
  - cd /go/src/gitlab.com/[your-user]/[your-repo]
  - go env # Just because the output can get helpfull

build-my-project:
  stage: build
  script:
    - glide update # I prefer to add the `glide.lock` file to my `.gitignore`. You may prefer to skip this step if you don't.
    - glide install
    - go build 

# test-my-project:
#   stage: test
#   script:
#     - go test -v -cover ./...

You are absolutely right @sorenmat. Docker is just pretty new to me, small steps ;)

and/or check in your dependencies like most gophers do. since it is "only" source code it should not be too much.