How to do it...

  1. Create http-server.go, where we will create a simple HTTP server and a handler which will give us the current database details, such as machine IP, hostname, port, and selected database, as follows:

package mainimport (  "bytes"  "database/sql"  "fmt"  "log"  "net/http"  "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"  "github.com/gorilla/mux")var db *sql.DBvar connectionError errorconst (  CONN_PORT = "8080"  DRIVER_NAME = "mysql"  DATA_SOURCE_NAME = "root:my-pass@tcp(mysql-container:3306)/mysql")func init() {  db, connectionError = sql.Open(DRIVER_NAME, DATA_SOURCE_NAME)  if connectionError != nil   {    log.Fatal("error connecting to database : ", connectionError)  }}func getDBInfo(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { rows, err := db.Query("SELECT ...

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