Kubernetes Go Tools and Tips

Kubernetes is one of the largest open source Go projects, so good tooling a solid understanding of Go is critical to Kubernetes development. This document provides a collection of resources, tools and tips that our developers have found useful.

Recommended Reading

Kubernetes Go development environment
The Go Spec - The Go Programming Language Specification.
Go Tour - Official Go tutorial.
Effective Go - A good collection of Go advice.
Kubernetes Code conventions - Style guide for Kubernetes code.
Three Go Landmines - Surprising behavior in the Go language. These have caused real bugs!

Recommended Tools

godep - Used for Kubernetes dependency management. See also Kubernetes godep and dependency management
Go Version Manager - A handy tool for managing Go versions.
godepq - A tool for analyzing go import trees.

Go Tips

Godoc bookmarklet - navigate from a github page to the corresponding godoc page.
Consider making a separate Go tree for each project, which can make overlapping dependency management much easier. Remember to set the $GOPATH correctly! Consider scripting this.
Emacs users - setup go-mode

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