On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM Sascha Brawer via Cloud cloud@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Which version of golang does the toolforge build service currently support? Could it be upgraded to a recent version, such as go 1.23 or 1.24?
Hi Sascha, we support the same versions supported by the upstream Heroku Go buildpack. [0] You should be able to use Go 1.23 or 1.24 by putting that version in go.mod. [1]
Somewhat related: Has it been considered to support building containers from a regular Dockerfile/Containerfile? From my personal perspective, I'm not sure if Heroku buildpacks give much value for all their complexity; if I could, I'd rather run "podman build" from a gitlab runner. But that's just my personal opinion as a user;. Surely this has been discussed before?
Yes, this was discussed a few times, but at the moment we have decided not to support this. [2] Using buildpacks gives us more control on the way the container images are built.
We understand that some users would prefer using Dockerfiles, but we also believe that buildpacks should be able to cover most or all use cases. If you have something that you are struggling to deploy with buildpacks, we always welcome bug reports and feature requests. :)
Francesco
[0] https://github.com/heroku/buildpacks-go [1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/go-modules [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cloud_Services_team/Enhancemen...