https://github.com/techiescamp/golang-for-devops
Want to learn Golang for DevOps? Follow this roadmap with hands-on tasks and real-world automation examples to level up your skills.
https://github.com/techiescamp/golang-for-devops
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Want to learn Golang for DevOps? Follow this roadmap with hands-on tasks and real-world automation examples to level up your skills.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/techiescamp/golang-for-devops
- Owner: techiescamp
- Created: 2025-03-27T05:19:57.000Z (10 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-27T05:23:13.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-27T06:24:59.144Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: devops, devops-learning, go, golang, golang-for-devops, golang-kubernetes
- Homepage: https://devopscube.com/golang-for-devops/
- Size: 5.86 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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# Golang for DevOps: A Practical Roadmap with Hands-on Tasks
Want to learn Golang for DevOps? Follow this roadmap with hands-on tasks and real-world automation examples to level up your skills.
## Overview
This roadmap is designed to help DevOps engineers learn Golang while building practical tools for cloud operations, automation, and Kubernetes.
## Hit the Star! :star:
> [!NOTE]
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## **Week 1: Golang Basics**
### **Goal:** Get comfortable with Go syntax and key features.
- ✅ Install Go and set up your environment
- ✅ Learn Go's basic syntax: variables, loops, conditionals
- ✅ Understand functions, methods, and structs
- ✅ Learn error handling in Go
- ✅ Work with arrays, slices, and maps
- ✅ Explore Goroutines (for concurrency)
**Practice Project:**
- Build a CLI tool that pings services/endpoints and reports their status (`net/http` package).
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## **Week 2: File Handling & Configurations**
### **Goal:** Read/write files, process YAML/JSON, and handle configurations.
- ✅ Learn file I/O in Go (`os`, `io`, `bufio` packages)
- ✅ Work with JSON and YAML parsing (`encoding/json`, `gopkg.in/yaml.v3`)
- ✅ Read environment variables (`os.Getenv`)
- ✅ Learn how to create and use configuration files
**Practice Project:**
- Create a utility that reads and validates YAML/JSON configuration files before deployment.
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## **Week 3: Networking & HTTP**
### **Goal:** Build command-line tools for cloud and Kubernetes-related operations.
- ✅ Understand the `net/http` package for making API calls
- ✅ Work with REST APIs using `http.Client`
- ✅ Learn HTTP server basics with `net/http`
- ✅ Explore Go’s built-in templating system
**Practice Projects:**
- Develop a simplified command-line tool that performs common cloud operations.
- Create an API that exposes system metrics like CPU, memory, and disk usage.
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## **Week 4: Concurrency & Scheduling**
### **Goal:** Learn how to handle multiple tasks efficiently.
- ✅ Learn Goroutines and Channels
- ✅ Work with the `sync` package
- ✅ Learn how to create a job scheduler using `time.Ticker` and `cron` packages
- ✅ Handle concurrent requests and workers
**Practice Project:**
- Develop a simple scheduler that runs tasks at specified intervals.
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## **Week 5: Kubernetes Development Basics**
### **Goal:** Work with Kubernetes API in Go.
- ✅ Learn how to interact with Kubernetes API using `client-go`
- ✅ Understand CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions)
- ✅ Explore controllers, webhooks, and operators
**Practice Projects:**
- Create a simple operator that manages a custom resource.
- Build a webhook that validates or mutates Kubernetes resources before they're created or updated.
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## **Week 6: Advanced Kubernetes Tools**
### **Goal:** Automate security and RBAC-related tasks.
- ✅ Learn how to create Kubernetes controllers
- ✅ Work with RBAC policies in Kubernetes
- ✅ Implement logging and monitoring features in Go
**Practice Projects:**
- Develop a controller that watches specific resources and takes actions when they change.
- Create a CLI tool that analyzes and visualizes RBAC permissions across your cluster.
- Build a CLI that validates security contexts on pods and containers.
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## **Week 7: System Utilities & Performance Testing**
### **Goal:** Build tools to analyze and optimize systems.
- ✅ Learn how to read system resource usage (`syscall`, `os/exec`)
- ✅ Work with Go profiling and benchmarking (`pprof`)
- ✅ Learn about log parsing and regex (`regexp` package)
**Practice Projects:**
- Develop a utility that synchronizes files between directories or systems.
- Build a tool that generates traffic to test application performance.
- Create a program that parses log files and extracts useful information.
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## **Week 8: Final Project & Best Practices**
### **Goal:** Bring everything together and follow Go best practices.
- ✅ Learn best practices for writing idiomatic Go code
- ✅ Understand Go modules and dependency management
- ✅ Explore testing in Go (`testing` package)
- ✅ Write a complete Go project with proper documentation
**Final Project:**
- Pick one or more of the projects above and refine them into production-ready tools.
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## **Next Steps**
- Contribute to open-source Golang projects in DevOps
- Explore Go frameworks like Cobra (for CLI tools) and Fiber (for web APIs)
- Learn how to package and distribute Go applications
### 📌 **Happy Coding! 🚀**