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Go for DevOps
Go for DevOps

Go for DevOps : Learn how to use the Go language to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform

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  • Develop the skills to build command-line tools to control thousands of nodes
  • Use Go to create Terraform providers and GitHub actions and extend Kubernetes
  • Gain the knowledge to build DevOps workflows that are understandable, scalable, and safe

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Go is the go-to language for DevOps libraries and services, and without it, achieving fast and safe automation is a challenge. With the help of Go for DevOps, you'll learn how to deliver services with ease and safety, becoming a better DevOps engineer in the process. Some of the key things this book will teach you are how to write Go software to automate configuration management, update remote machines, author custom automation in GitHub Actions, and interact with Kubernetes. As you advance through the chapters, you'll explore how to automate the cloud using software development kits (SDKs), extend HashiCorp's Terraform and Packer using Go, develop your own DevOps services with gRPC and REST, design system agents, and build robust workflow systems. By the end of this Go for DevOps book, you'll understand how to apply development principles to automate operations and provide operational insights using Go, which will allow you to react quickly to resolve system failures before your customers realize something has gone wrong.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Ops and DevOps engineers who would like to use Go to develop their own DevOps tooling or integrate custom features with DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Packer, and Terraform. Experience with some type of programming language, but not necessarily Go, is necessary to get started with this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand the basic structure of the Go language to begin your DevOps journey
  • Interact with filesystems to read or stream data
  • Communicate with remote services via REST and gRPC
  • Explore writing tools that can be used in the DevOps environment
  • Develop command-line operational software in Go
  • Work with popular frameworks to deploy production software
  • Create GitHub actions that streamline your CI/CD process
  • Write a ChatOps application with Slack to simplify production visibility

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Thomas Niu Feb 06, 2024
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Cyril Dec 28, 2022
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The topics covered were the ones I was looking for. and the examples are so well explained and easy to follow
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Mr. Banner Dec 17, 2022
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This is a must have for the next level if you are a DevOps pro
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deadmoon Jul 08, 2022
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Full Disclosure: I've worked with John Doak at Google and again at Microsoft.I got into computers when UNIX on mainframes and minicomputers was a thing, and naturally learned to get around in C , Pascal ,and other languages of that time. While that has served me well, I want to stay current, and Go is the natural evolution/consolidation of those. I have also built a career building Ops/DevOps/SRE and other SWE and infrastructure teams, so this book seemed a great idea to me - a way to get current thinking on a current language, with a book that has examples of tasks that I or my teams would be interested in solving.In short, the book has proven to be a great introduction to a language I had a little familiarity with, but in a way that's focused on solving the kinds of automations problem that my teams deal with every day. It starts with the basics that I needed to grasp the language, and then works progressively through tasks that become more complex but are examples of things we do every day. The fact that it uses online environments and other tools to get you up and writing quickly is a nice perk. The book also gives a little SWE philosophical background so you can understand why Go works the way it does, and why certain engineering practices are "best practices". It manages to do this with weight, but without being preachy.In short I found this both a good introduction to Go and a useful reference for things/methodologies I (as a manager) should probably do more often but sometimes forget.
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Tiny Oct 14, 2022
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If you need to upgrade your current Go proficiency to work in the new development environment, “Go for Devops” Packt, by John Doak and David Justice can help. The book does an excellent job reintroducing the reader to go basics, building out observability solutions, and then migrating those solutions onto the cloud. Each section provides an extensive code-base and real-world examples to help learn the best solutions. My own Go skills have been lacking and I found the first section extremely helpful. It covers from language basics to command line tooling with all the intermediate sections to build file-structures and connect to remote resources. These skills play in later when needed to construct environments on cloud-providers and detail the observability aspects required by DevOps. If you don’t have the basic skills, you can’t move to advanced options and this does a credible job covering down on those basics. My favorite part of the middle section was the connection with existing tools. I don’t know any developers that haven’t used GitHub as a core piece so learning to automate workflows with GitHub builds a much needed skill-set. I also use Open Telemetry extensively myself to help send the right data to the right places so seeing it covered here was useful. Even further, the authors point out the ability to integrate OWASP’s Zap, and then the Jaeger tool with OTel to show results effectively. The last part builds to infrastructure as code with Terraform and then expand into Azure. This is a good spot for a joke, Do you know why there is no DevOps on Mars? It hasn’t been terraformed. With that, terraform is a key piece of most DevOps infrastructure so the inclusion here is valuable. Past terraform, the authors build some container solutions with Kubernetes and explain how to construct an Azure environment. Each of these steps helps the advanced user build and monitor a DevOps environment to continuous generate code for production. My chief complaint was I was really looking forward to the chapter on Chaos. I thought it would be some interesting takes on doing Chaos engineering against Go code for my CI/CD pipelines. The chapter did offer some best practices, but more in line with standard approaches than a detailed Chaos look. All in all, not too bad of a downer for an otherwise great book. This book provides a great, intermediate look at using Go in your DevOps process. While it does not exclusively focus on DevOps approaches, the integration with the various code aspects will certainly improve your overall code development. I recommend this for anyone working development in Go with an interest in expanding their knowledge to infrastructure as code.
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