Learn Golang by Building Real-World DevOps Projects
This Golang series is designed for DevOps engineers and system administrators who want to learn Go by building real-world projects, including REST APIs, CLI tools, and web servers.
This Golang series is designed for DevOps engineers seeking to expand their development skills, system administrators transitioning to programming, and developers looking to build practical command-line tools through real-world projects.
If you have basic familiarity with the command line and understanding fundamental programming concepts (variables, loops, functions), you're ready to start.
Introduction
Golang is a language introduced and developed by Google since 2007, with the official announcement in 2009.
The goal was to combine the power of languages like C and C++ with more simplicity and performance.
The simple syntax and stability make it the choice of many developers who love to use and learn Golang, which has made it, over the years, one of the most popular and loved programming languages among developers.
One of the main areas where Golang excels is DevOps, because many leading DevOps tools are built using Golang.
The first was Docker, which made Golang more popular, and then others followed, such as Kubernetes and Terraform, and the list goes on.
In the command-line world, Go is also very popular, and many applications use Golang behind the scenes to build robust and fast command-line tools.
Learning Go is unlike other languages; it is simple and fun, and the learning curve isn't that steep.
You won't take much time to start applying it, as it tries to make things easy and simple.