go-for-operations

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Go for Operations Workshop

Demo repository for my "Go for Operations" workshop.

Use the right tool (and language) for the job! This is the motto for this hands-on session. Go is a popular modern, simple, reliable and efficient programming language especially in the Ops and Cloud-native domain. Docker, Kubernetes, Kubectl and many other known tools and infrastructure components are all implemented in Go.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have prepared your development environment properly.

• Modern Operating System, like Windows 10 or MacOS
• Local Golang installation. See https://golang.org/doc/install
• Editor with support for Go
  • Visual Studio Code with Go plugin
  • IntelliJ IDEA with Go plugin
  • JetBrains GoLand
• Modern terminal and shell
• Git Client (either CLI or GUI)
• Local Docker installation like Docker Desktop
• Local Kubernetes installation like Docker Desktop or Minikube

Workshop Outline

1. Getting to Know Go: Language Basics and Tooling
2. Building CLI applications with Cobra
3. Implementing a custom kubectl plugin
4. Building a Sidecar container
5. Building a Kubernetes Operator in Go

Workshop Challenge descriptions

We created several challenges for you to go through that feature the outlined workshop topics. Follow this README for instructions.

References

• https://gobyexample.com
• https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/go/
• https://goreleaser.com/quick-start/
• https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/master/cobra/README.md
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/ec2/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/v1/developer-guide/using-ec2-with-go-sdk.html
• https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/master/go/example_code/ec2
• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins/
• https://github.com/operator-framework/getting-started
• https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/blob/master/doc/user-guide.md

Maintainer

M.-Leander Reimer (@lreimer), mario-leander.reimer@qaware.de Markus Zimmermann (@markus_zm), markus.zimmermann@qaware.de

License

This software is provided under the MIT open source license, read the LICENSE file for details.