Welcome to the "GoLang for DevOps" course repository. This course is designed for DevOps engineers who want to learn how to apply the Go programming language to their daily workflows and integrate Go with various DevOps practices, including cloud services like AWS.

• Overview of GoLang
• Setting up the GoLang environment
• Basic GoLang syntax and types
• Introduction to DevOps and its principles
• How GoLang fits into the DevOps ecosystem

• Variables, constants, and data types
• Control structures: if, switch, loops
• Functions and packages
• Understanding Go Modules for dependency management

• Arrays, slices, and maps
• Pointers and structs
• Interfaces and error handling
• Concurrency basics: goroutines and channels

• Writing basic scripts in Go
• Automating routine tasks
• Interacting with the file system
• Command-line arguments and flag parsing

• Unit testing with the testing package
• Benchmarking and profiling Go applications
• Debugging techniques and tools
• Best practices for error handling in DevOps scenarios

• Designing command-line interfaces
• Reading and writing to standard input/output
• Cross-compilation for different platforms
• Packaging and distributing GoLang binaries

• HTTP client and server fundamentals
• Creating RESTful services with Go
• Interacting with APIs
• Secure communication with TLS

• Working with JSON and XML in Go
• Data serialization and deserialization
• Database interaction (SQL and NoSQL)
• Caching strategies for DevOps

• Understanding Docker and containerization
• Writing Dockerfiles and automating Docker image builds with Go
• Interacting with the Docker API
• Container orchestration basics (Kubernetes overview)

• Understand Kubernetes Plugin Development
• Setting up a development environment for Kubernetes plugin development
• Develop one kubernetes plugin with go

• Building CI/CD pipelines with Go
• Integration with Jenkins, Travis CI, or GitHub Actions
• Automated testing and deployment strategies
• Monitoring and logging in CI/CD with Go

• Introduction to Terraform and IaC
• Writing custom Terraform providers in Go
• Managing cloud resources with Go
• GoLang in serverless architectures

• Implementing logging in Go applications
• Tools for monitoring Go applications (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Tracing and observability in microservices
• Alerting and incident management automation

• Introduction to AWS services relevant to DevOps
• Setting up the AWS CLI and SDK for Go
• Writing Go applications that interact with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda)
• Deploying Go applications on AWS Lambda
• Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation and Go (AWS CDK)
• Monitoring and scaling Go applications on AWS (CloudWatch, Auto Scaling)

• Applying GoLang to a real-world DevOps project
• Code reviews and maintaining Go codebases
• Performance optimization
• Best practices for using GoLang in a DevOps culture

• Prepare for common GoLang-related interview questions.
• Understand the types of problems and challenges GoLang developers face.

Each day includes hands-on coding exercises and assignments to reinforce the concepts learned. Ensure you commit your code daily to track your progress and for future reference.

Each weekend there will be a dedicated live session on my youtube channel to clean up your doubts

The course culminates in a final project where you will apply the skills you've learned to build a comprehensive DevOps tool or workflow using GoLang, with a focus on AWS integration.

Feel free to fork this repository and submit pull requests to contribute to the course materials.

This course and all associated materials are released under the MIT License.

For any queries regarding the course, reach out to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandip-das-developer/