---
title: Test your Go deployment
linkTitle: Test your deployment
weight: 50
keywords: deploy, go, local, development
description: Learn how to deploy your Go application
aliases:
  - /language/golang/deploy/
  - /guides/language/golang/deploy/
---

## Prerequisites

- Complete all the previous sections of this guide, starting with [Build
  your Go image](build-images.md).
- [Turn on Kubernetes](/manuals/desktop/features/kubernetes.md#install-and-turn-on-kubernetes) in Docker
  Desktop.

## Overview

In this section, you'll learn how to use Docker Desktop to deploy your
application to a fully-featured Kubernetes environment on your development
machine. This allows you to test and debug your workloads on Kubernetes locally
before deploying.

## Create a Kubernetes YAML file

In your project directory, create a file named
`docker-go-kubernetes.yaml`. Open the file in an IDE or text editor and add
the following contents. Replace `DOCKER_USERNAME/REPO_NAME` with your Docker
username and the name of the repository that you created in [Configure CI/CD for
your Go application](configure-ci-cd.md).

```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    service: server
  name: server
  namespace: default
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      service: server
  strategy: {}
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        service: server
    spec:
      initContainers:
        - name: wait-for-db
          image: busybox:1.28
          command:
            [
              "sh",
              "-c",
              'until nc -zv db 5432; do echo "waiting for db"; sleep 2; done;',
            ]
      containers:
        - env:
            - name: PGDATABASE
              value: mydb
            - name: PGPASSWORD
              value: whatever
            - name: PGHOST
              value: db
            - name: PGPORT
              value: "5432"
            - name: PGUSER
              value: postgres
          image: DOCKER_USERNAME/REPO_NAME
          name: server
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
              hostPort: 8080
              protocol: TCP
          resources: {}
      restartPolicy: Always
status: {}
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    service: db
  name: db
  namespace: default
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      service: db
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        service: db
    spec:
      containers:
        - env:
            - name: POSTGRES_DB
              value: mydb
            - name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
              value: whatever
            - name: POSTGRES_USER
              value: postgres
          image: postgres
          name: db
          ports:
            - containerPort: 5432
              protocol: TCP
          resources: {}
      restartPolicy: Always
status: {}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  labels:
    service: server
  name: server
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
    - name: "8080"
      port: 8080
      targetPort: 8080
      nodePort: 30001
  selector:
    service: server
status:
  loadBalancer: {}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  labels:
    service: db
  name: db
  namespace: default