The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself. In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 22.04
Update Sept 2024: changed the page parsed for latest version, validated installation of go1.23.1 on Ubuntu22.04 The Go programming language consistently ranks as one of the most popular languages in developer surveys. In fact, Kubernetes as well as most of the CNF projects are written in Go. And it compiles down to machine code, which … GoLang: Installing the Go Programming language on Ubuntu 22.04
See the newer version of this article, “Installing the Go Programming language on Ubuntu 22.04“. The Go programming language consistently ranks as one of the most popular languages in developer surveys. In fact, Kubernetes as well as most of the CNF projects are written in Go. And it compiles down to machine code, which has … GoLang: Installing the Go Programming language on Ubuntu 20.04
The Go programming language has gotten considerable momentum, and the fact that it compiles down to a single statically linked binary has made it popular in containers, where a single executable binary fits the execution model perfectly. This article will detail installation on Ubuntu with the standard hello world validation.
Update: For the latest version of this article compatible with Ubuntu 22.04 and Go 1.19, see my newer article here. The Go programming language has gotten considerable momentum, and the fact that it compiles down to machine code has made it popular in containers like Docker where a single executable binary fits the execution model perfectly. This article … GoLang: Installing the Go Programming language on Ubuntu 16.04
Update Oct 2022: This article has now been written for GoLang 1.19 on Ubuntu 22.04. Go has changed the way it handles SIGURG signals, and Systemd services no longer directly forward to syslog. Read my newer article here. The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 16.04
The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself. In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs, … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04
Downloading 3rd party packages from github is made very simple in the Go language with the import statement. But similar to other languages, the complexity of versions and inter-dependencies begs the use of a package manager for any projects that are non-trivial (think npm for Javascript, pip for Python, Maven for Java, etc.). Glide is a package manager for the Go … GoLang: Glide for Go language package management
Using 3rd party packages from github is made very simple in the Go language with the import statement. But one problem is that “go get” will always pull the HEAD of the master branch and there is no way to explicitly specify another branch. The ultimate answer would be to use a package dependency manager like Glide, which … GoLang: Vendor directory for github branches other than master
A nice feature of the Go language is the ability to build binaries for multiple platforms directly from a single source system. As an example, even from a development Windows 7 32-bit machine, you can build binaries for both 64 bit Linux and Windows 2012 Servers. Before Go 1.5, you needed a compiler for the target architecture, … GoLang: Cross Compiling for Linux and Windows platforms
The Go programming language has gotten considerable momentum, and the fact that it compiles down to machine code has made it popular in containers like Docker where a single executable binary fits the execution model perfectly. This article will detail installation on Ubuntu 14.04 with the standard hello world validation.