3
Setting Up Your Environment
In this chapter, we are going to talk about setting up your Go environment for use in our future chapters and for developing your own Go software in the future.
We're going to cover the following main topics:
- Installing Go on your machine
- Building code locally
Before we begin, let's have a brief walk-through of the technical requirements you need to be aware of before reading on.
Technical requirements
The only technical requirements for this chapter are as follows:
- A computer with an OS supported by the Go tools
- An internet connection and web browser to download the Go tools
Installing Go on your machine
The Go compiler and toolset can be found at https://golang.org/dl/. Here, you will find releases for the ...
Get Go for DevOps now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
