Golang Vagrant Environment

Golang has a slightly more complex setup procedure compared to other languages as it uses a workspace concept. Getting the environment wrong means many of the go commands fail with some what confusing errors. This repo aims to alleviate the problems starting a golang project by providing a vagrant environment and puppet script that will setup and prepare all the required pre-requisits.

Requirements

In order to use this repository you need the following:

Using vagrant-golang

This repo was developed to be copied and re-used as needed in other projects. It is only meant to make per project golang environments easier to manage. I have tried other golang modules for puppet and they didn't work as expected.

Clone or copy the repo and do the following:

cd /path/to/repo
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
# ...
cd /vagrant
go version
go install hello
hello
# hello, world

Choosing golang version

This repo is hardcoded to use 1.2 although this can easily be changed after cloning. If you want to use another version simply change the $version parameter in manifests/init.pp. The version string is taken from the golang downloads list. Once changed you can either call vagrant up if you haven't already setup the vagrant box or vagrant provision if the machine is already up.

Contributing

Any contributions are welcome. Please just fork the repo and submit a pull request when complete.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.