Building From Source

Run Looking Glass straight from a checkout while you change it, or build the image yourself.

At a Glance

• A clone of kloudkit/looking-glass.
• Go 1.27.2 or later to run from source, Docker to build the image.

Run From Source

go run .
# in another shell
curl -X DELETE 'localhost:8080/anything/here'

Build the Image

docker build -t looking-glass --build-arg version=v1.2.3 .
docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 looking-glass

The version build argument is what --version reports; without it, the build reports dev. The image is a single static binary on a distroless base, without a shell, running as a non-root user.

Next Steps

• Configuration: flags and environment variables.
• Activity Log: what the server prints while you test it.