Go for DevOps

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

Beginner

121 Lessons

38h

Certificate of Completion

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

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This course includes

169 Playgrounds

5 Challenges

14 Quizzes

This course includes

169 Playgrounds

5 Challenges

14 Quizzes

Course Overview

Go is a type-safe concurrent language. It is easy to develop and extremely performant. This course covers using the Go language to automate servers, cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform. You’ll start by learning the basics of the Go language, such as concurrency and the context package. You’ll learn to interact with the local and remote filesystem using methods such as REST and gRPC. Then, you’ll learn how to use OpenTelemetry for distribution application observability and automate application...Show More

What You'll Learn

The ability to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform

Ability to communicate with remote data sources using methods such as REST and gRPC

The ability to use OpenTelemetry to enable observability across distributed applications

Hands-on experience in automating application release workflows using Go and GitHub Actions

Hands-on experience in automating the process of creating system images using Packer on the AWS platform

The ability to use Go with Terraform to create your own custom Terraform provider

The ability to program the Kubernetes API to extend its capabilities

A thorough understanding of designing resilient DevOps software

What You'll Learn

The ability to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform

Course Content

Introduction to the Course

Go and DevOps

Go Language Basics

Go Language Essentials

Introduction Handling Errors in Go Utilizing Go Constants Using Defer, Panic, and Recover Utilizing Goroutines for Concurrency Select and Mutexes in Goroutines Challenge: Sum With Goroutines Solution Review: Sum With Goroutines Understanding Go’s Context Type Utilizing Go's Testing Framework Generics – The New Kid on the Block Adding Type Parameters to Struct Types Summary and Quiz on the Go Language Basics

Filesystem Interactions

Introduction I/O Interfaces in Go Reading and Writing to Files Streaming File Content OS-Agnostic Pathing OS-Agnostic Filesystems Summary and Quiz on Filesystem Interactions

Using Common Data Formats

Introduction CSV Files Using excelize When Dealing With Excel Popular Encoding Formats: JSON Challenge: Process JSON Data Solution Review: Process JSON Data Popular Encoding Formats - YAML Summary and Quiz on Using Common Data Formats

Interacting with Remote Data Sources

5 Lessons

Writing Command-Line Tooling

6 Lessons

Automating Command-Line Tasks

6 Lessons

Observability with OpenTelemetry

7 Lessons

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

8 Lessons

Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency

6 Lessons

Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer

7 Lessons

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

5 Lessons

Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes

6 Lessons

Programming the Cloud

6 Lessons

Designing for Chaos

7 Lessons

Appendix

2 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Course Author

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