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Go for DevOps

You're reading from   Go for DevOps Learn how to use the Go language to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818896
Length 634 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Doak John Doak
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David Justice David Justice
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Go
2. Chapter 1: Go Language Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Go Language Essentials 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Environment 5. Chapter 4: Filesystem Interactions 6. Chapter 5: Using Common Data Formats 7. Chapter 6: Interacting with Remote Data Sources 8. Chapter 7: Writing Command-Line Tooling 9. Chapter 8: Automating Command-Line Tasks 10. Section 2: Instrumenting, Observing, and Responding
11. Chapter 9: Observability with OpenTelemetry 12. Chapter 10: Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions 13. Chapter 11: Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency 14. Section 3: Cloud ready Go
15. Chapter 12: Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer 16. Chapter 13: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform 17. Chapter 14: Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes 18. Chapter 15: Programming the Cloud 19. Chapter 16: Designing for Chaos 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Publishing a custom Go GitHub Action

The superpower of GitHub Actions is the community and the actions that the community publishes to the GitHub Marketplace. Think about how much more work we would have had to do in the previous sections if we didn't have community actions available for use. Our workflows would have had to start from first principles, involving authoring long, tedious scripts to complete tasks that we were able to express in a handful of YAML instead.

Open source software is not only about having access to free software but also about giving back to the community. We are going to learn how to give back to the GitHub Actions community through publishing an action to GitHub Marketplace. This will enable the entire user community of GitHub to benefit from it.

In this section, you will learn how to publish a custom action to the GitHub Marketplace. You will learn the basics of publishing actions. After covering the basics, you will learn how to automate versioning...

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