The good of Go for SREs

If you are an SRE, Go must be one of the languages you should know for sure. There are multiple ways you can use Go in your day to day.

In this repository you will find few reasons why Go is one of the best languages you must master as an SRE

CLI tools

In Go is simple to create you own CLI tool.

Using the standard library you can create a basic CLI EXAMPLE

cd simple-cli
go build .
./simple-cli --name carlos

Using Cobra you can create complex command line tools with many features already build in

Cobra is used in helm, hugo, gh

With Cobra you get these features out of the box:

Why not use bash scripts, it's not intuitive, personally I always struggle reading bash files, there is no standard way to code it, there is no intellisense, there is no easy way to test them.
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/4b1f9201181340099b698246857ea98d/using-go-instead-of-bash-for-scripts.html

cd cobra-cli
go build .
./cobra-cli echo -t=4 carlos

Go has a powerfull templating engine EXAMPLE

helm template --dry-run ./mychart/

Go is one of the languages where creating an standalone web server is simple and secure. EXAMPLE

With Go you can create you own infrastructure using Pulumi

You can test you Terraform plans using Go with Terratest