Go for DevOps

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Go

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Go Language Basics

Technical requirements

Using the Go Playground

Utilizing Go packages

Declaring a package

Importing a package

Using a package

Package name conflicts

Packages must be used

A Go Hello World

Using Go's variable types

Go's types

Declaring variables

Variable scopes and shadowing

Function/statement variable must be used

Looping in Go

C style

Removing the init statement

Remove the post statement too and you have a while loop

Creating an infinite loop

Using conditionals

if statements

else

Learning about functions

Returning multiple values and named results

Variadic arguments

Anonymous functions

Defining public and private

Using arrays and slices

Arrays

Slices

Extracting ...