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Network Automation with Go

You're reading from   Network Automation with Go Learn how to automate network operations and build applications using the Go programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560925
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kashin Michael Kashin
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Nicolas Leiva Nicolas Leiva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Go Programming Language
2. Chapter 1: Introduction FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Go Basics 4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Go 5. Chapter 4: Networking (TCP/IP) with Go 6. Part 2: Common Tools and Frameworks
7. Chapter 5: Network Automation 8. Chapter 6: Configuration Management 9. Chapter 7: Automation Frameworks 10. Part 3: Interacting with APIs
11. Chapter 8: Network APIs 12. Chapter 9: OpenConfig 13. Chapter 10: Network Monitoring 14. Chapter 11: Expert Insights 15. Chapter 12: Appendix : Building a Testing Environment 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Go tool

One of the convenient things about Go – as a programming language – is that a single tool handles all interactions with, and operations on, the source code. When installing Go, make sure that the go tool is in the searchable OS path so that you can invoke it from any command-line terminal. The user experience, regardless of the OS or platform architecture, is uniform and doesn't require any customization when moving from one machine to another.

IDEs also use the go tool to build and run code, report errors, and automatically format Go source code. The go executable accepts a verb as the first argument that determines what go tool function to apply to Go source files:

$ go 
Go is a tool for managing Go source code.
Usage:
     go <command> [arguments]
The commands are:
     bug         start a bug report
     build       compile packages and dependencies
     ...       
     mod         module maintenance
     run         compile and run Go program...
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