Technical requirements

To follow all the recipes in this chapter, configure your environment according to these steps:

1. Download and install Go 1.12.6 or above on youroperatingsystem fromhttps://golang.org/doc/install.
2. Install Consul from https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html.

3. Open a Terminal or console application and create and navigate to a project directory such as ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook. All the code will be run and modified from this directory.
4. Clone the latest code into ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook-original and (optionally) work from that directory rather than typing in the examples manually:

          $ git clone [email protected]:PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition.git go-programming-cookbook-original