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diff --git a/posts/2014-03-23-golang-for-sysadmin.org b/posts/2014-03-23-golang-for-sysadmin.org deleted file mode 100644 index 22dc891..0000000 --- a/posts/2014-03-23-golang-for-sysadmin.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -Recently I've been reading articles about golang and how it can be used -to replace scripts that you would usually write in Python Perl or Bash. -I can understand why you would do that (you get a binary, so it's -faster, it works without the need of an interpreter, etc). - -At work we have a "ops.git" repository with all our rules for cfengines, -configurations for services, zones for DNS, and also a tons of scripts. -Most of them, today, are in Python/Perl/Bash. I've been looking and -toying to replace some of them with golang, but I don't see how we could -do that without modifying the existing setup. - -This scripts are copied on a system by =cfengine=, usually in -=/usr/local/bin=. I'm trying to figure out how would you do that for -programs in go ? I can't imagine a solution where you would have to -compile the binary and commit it to the repository (the size of the -repository would just explode), and I don't like the idea of having a -hook in =cfengine= to compile and put them in place. - -The main solution that I can see here is to have a different repository -with all the scripts, and let jenkins build a debian package (something -like $company-ops-tools.deb) and then have it deployed/upgraded by -cfengine via =apt=. - -Another solution would have to put a Makefile into this repository and -let jenkins build some artifacts, put them in a package, and get it -deployed. - -Is there another simpler solution ? By simpler I really mean faster than -having to go through a build system, since it has to compile, build a -package, and then get it deployed. It's not really great when you want -to have a quick feedback on a script you're writing, and the current ops -are quiet used to this, so having to go through a longer loop would be -annoying. - -If you're using go in your company with this kind of setup, I'll be -interested in feedback, feel free to contact me by -[[mailto:franck.cuny@gmail.com][email]], on -[[https://twitter.com/franckcuny][Twitter]] or -[[https://plus.google.com/+franckcuny][Google+]]. |