Shipping Go : Develop, Deliver, Discuss, Design, and Go Again

Build and upgrade an automated software delivery pipeline that supports containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, automated deployment, and more.

In Shipping Go you will learn how to:

• Develop better software based on feedback from customers
• Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features
• Reduce bugs with pipeline automation that validates code before it is deployed
• Establish continuous testing for exceptional code quality
• Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments
• Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way
• Deliver a culture of continuous improvement

Shipping Go is a hands-on guide to shipping Go-based software. Author Joel Holmes shows you the easy way to set up development pipelines, fully illustrated with practical examples in the powerful Go language. You’ll put continuous delivery and continuous integration into action, and discover instantly useful guidance on automating your team’s build and reacting with agility to customer demands. Your new pipelines will ferry your projects through production and deployment, and also improve your testing, code quality, and production applications.

About the Technology

An effective software delivery pipeline automates all stages, from initial design, through development, deployment, and ultimately the usage experience that feeds back into new features and releases. Go embraces the best practices of Continuous Delivery, and adds a few language-specific tools and twists of its own.

About the Book

Shipping Go shows you how to build Go-specific software development pipelines. You’ll have a basic CI/CD process up and running by the time you finish Chapter 3, along with an iterative process for designing, releasing, and revising your applications. Then, you’ll systematically upgrade your pipeline to support containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, and automated deployment. A set of handy appendices help you translate these valuable practices to Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript applications.

What’s Inside

• Create a development pipeline that turns feedback into features
• Automatically validate code before it is deployed
• Serverless, container-based, and server-based deployments
• Scale your deployment in a cost-effective way

About the Reader

For Go developers.

About the Author

Joel Holmes builds cloud native applications, helping to architect, design, and develop them. A Golang tech lead, Aliénor Latour was the technical editor for this book.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - STARTUP
1 Delivering value
2 Introducing continuous integration
3 Introducing continuous testing
4 Introducing continuous deployment
PART 2 - SCALING
5 Code quality enforcement
6 Testing frameworks, mocking, and dependencies
7 Containerized deployment
PART 3 - GOING PUBLIC
8 Configuration management and stable releases
9 Integration testing
10 Advanced deployment
11 The loop

Joel Holmes is a software developer focused on building cloud native applications. He has worked at several start-ups helping architect, design, and develop new products and services to help those companies develop and grow. Along the way, he was able to help establish tools and processes that helped development and increase quality. Joel is an Open Source contributor, including to DevOps projects that are written in Go such as VMWare's Carvel-vendir.