GitHub Actions and Go

Explore how to set up GitHub Actions workflows for automating the compilation of Go code inside Docker images and securely pushing these images to Docker Hub. Understand managing credentials with GitHub secrets, repository setup, and pipeline configuration to streamline deployment processes for Go applications.

We'll cover the following...

Storing secrets in GitHub
The final version of the configuration file
Let’s try our commands

This lesson will use GitHub Actions to push a Docker image that contains a Go executable file in Docker Hub.

Note: In order to follow this lesson, you must have a GitHub account, create a dedicated GitHub repository, and store the related files there.

We will begin with a GitHub repository that contains the following files:

.gitignore: This is an optional file that’s used for ignoring files and directories during git push operations.
usePost05.go: This is a sample Go file that uses an external package—please ...

1.Course Introduction

2.Introduction to Go

3. Basic Go Data Types

4.Composite Data Types

5.Reflection and Interfaces

6.Go Packages and Functions

7.Telling a UNIX System What to Do

8.Go Concurrency

9.Building Web Services

10.Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

11.Working with REST APIs

12.Code Testing and Profiling

13.Working with gRPC

14.Go Generics

15.Conclusion

16.Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

GitHub Actions and Go