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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+]].
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