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Go for DevOps

You're reading from   Go for DevOps Learn how to use the Go language to automate servers, the cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Packer, and Terraform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818896
Length 634 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Go
2. Chapter 1: Go Language Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Go Language Essentials 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Environment 5. Chapter 4: Filesystem Interactions 6. Chapter 5: Using Common Data Formats 7. Chapter 6: Interacting with Remote Data Sources 8. Chapter 7: Writing Command-Line Tooling 9. Chapter 8: Automating Command-Line Tasks 10. Section 2: Instrumenting, Observing, and Responding
11. Chapter 9: Observability with OpenTelemetry 12. Chapter 10: Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions 13. Chapter 11: Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency 14. Section 3: Cloud ready Go
15. Chapter 12: Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer 16. Chapter 13: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform 17. Chapter 14: Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes 18. Chapter 15: Programming the Cloud 19. Chapter 16: Designing for Chaos 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Using Common Data Formats

One of the key skills that a DevOps engineer requires is the ability to manipulate data across a variety of storage mediums.

In the last chapter, we interacted with the local filesystem to read and stream files. That is foundational for the skills we will be learning in this chapter.

This chapter will focus on how to manipulate common data formats that engineers commonly use. These formats are used to configure services, structure log data, and to export metrics, among the many other uses.

In this chapter, you will learn how to use comma-separated values (CSV) files to read and store data and encode/decode the popular JSON and YAML formats. You will discover how Go uses struct field tags to store metadata about fields. Also, you will learn how to stream these formats efficiently when working with large amounts of data.

Unlocking these skills will allow you to engage with services by manipulating configuration files, searching through...

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