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  1 | # Golang for DevOps: A Practical Roadmap with Hands-on Tasks
  2 | 
  3 | Want to learn Golang for DevOps? Follow this roadmap with hands-on tasks and real-world automation examples to level up your skills.
  4 | 
  5 | ## Overview
  6 | This roadmap is designed to help DevOps engineers learn Golang while building practical tools for cloud operations, automation, and Kubernetes.
  7 | 
  8 | ## Hit the Star! :star:
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 10 | > [!NOTE]
 11 | > If you are planning to use this repo for reference, please hit the star. Thanks!
 12 | 
 13 | ## **Week 1: Golang Basics**
 14 | ### **Goal:** Get comfortable with Go syntax and key features.
 15 | - ✅ Install Go and set up your environment
 16 | - ✅ Learn Go's basic syntax: variables, loops, conditionals
 17 | - ✅ Understand functions, methods, and structs
 18 | - ✅ Learn error handling in Go
 19 | - ✅ Work with arrays, slices, and maps
 20 | - ✅ Explore Goroutines (for concurrency)
 21 | 
 22 | **Practice Project:**  
 23 | - Build a CLI tool that pings services/endpoints and reports their status (`net/http` package).
 24 | 
 25 | ---
 26 | 
 27 | ## **Week 2: File Handling & Configurations**
 28 | ### **Goal:** Read/write files, process YAML/JSON, and handle configurations.
 29 | - ✅ Learn file I/O in Go (`os`, `io`, `bufio` packages)
 30 | - ✅ Work with JSON and YAML parsing (`encoding/json`, `gopkg.in/yaml.v3`)
 31 | - ✅ Read environment variables (`os.Getenv`)
 32 | - ✅ Learn how to create and use configuration files
 33 | 
 34 | **Practice Project:**  
 35 | - Create a utility that reads and validates YAML/JSON configuration files before deployment.
 36 | 
 37 | ---
 38 | 
 39 | ## **Week 3: Networking & HTTP**
 40 | ### **Goal:** Build command-line tools for cloud and Kubernetes-related operations.
 41 | - ✅ Understand the `net/http` package for making API calls
 42 | - ✅ Work with REST APIs using `http.Client`
 43 | - ✅ Learn HTTP server basics with `net/http`
 44 | - ✅ Explore Go’s built-in templating system
 45 | 
 46 | **Practice Projects:**  
 47 | - Develop a simplified command-line tool that performs common cloud operations.  
 48 | - Create an API that exposes system metrics like CPU, memory, and disk usage.  
 49 | 
 50 | ---
 51 | 
 52 | ## **Week 4: Concurrency & Scheduling**
 53 | ### **Goal:** Learn how to handle multiple tasks efficiently.
 54 | - ✅ Learn Goroutines and Channels
 55 | - ✅ Work with the `sync` package
 56 | - ✅ Learn how to create a job scheduler using `time.Ticker` and `cron` packages
 57 | - ✅ Handle concurrent requests and workers
 58 | 
 59 | **Practice Project:**  
 60 | - Develop a simple scheduler that runs tasks at specified intervals.  
 61 | 
 62 | ---
 63 | 
 64 | ## **Week 5: Kubernetes Development Basics**
 65 | ### **Goal:** Work with Kubernetes API in Go.
 66 | - ✅ Learn how to interact with Kubernetes API using `client-go`
 67 | - ✅ Understand CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions)
 68 | - ✅ Explore controllers, webhooks, and operators
 69 | 
 70 | **Practice Projects:**  
 71 | - Create a simple operator that manages a custom resource.  
 72 | - Build a webhook that validates or mutates Kubernetes resources before they're created or updated.  
 73 | 
 74 | ---
 75 | 
 76 | ## **Week 6: Advanced Kubernetes Tools**
 77 | ### **Goal:** Automate security and RBAC-related tasks.
 78 | - ✅ Learn how to create Kubernetes controllers
 79 | - ✅ Work with RBAC policies in Kubernetes
 80 | - ✅ Implement logging and monitoring features in Go
 81 | 
 82 | **Practice Projects:**  
 83 | - Develop a controller that watches specific resources and takes actions when they change.  
 84 | - Create a CLI tool that analyzes and visualizes RBAC permissions across your cluster.  
 85 | - Build a CLI that validates security contexts on pods and containers.  
 86 | 
 87 | ---
 88 | 
 89 | ## **Week 7: System Utilities & Performance Testing**
 90 | ### **Goal:** Build tools to analyze and optimize systems.
 91 | - ✅ Learn how to read system resource usage (`syscall`, `os/exec`)
 92 | - ✅ Work with Go profiling and benchmarking (`pprof`)
 93 | - ✅ Learn about log parsing and regex (`regexp` package)
 94 | 
 95 | **Practice Projects:**  
 96 | - Develop a utility that synchronizes files between directories or systems.  
 97 | - Build a tool that generates traffic to test application performance.  
 98 | - Create a program that parses log files and extracts useful information.  
 99 | 
100 | ---
101 | 
102 | ## **Week 8: Final Project & Best Practices**
103 | ### **Goal:** Bring everything together and follow Go best practices.
104 | - ✅ Learn best practices for writing idiomatic Go code
105 | - ✅ Understand Go modules and dependency management
106 | - ✅ Explore testing in Go (`testing` package)
107 | - ✅ Write a complete Go project with proper documentation
108 | 
109 | **Final Project:**  
110 | - Pick one or more of the projects above and refine them into production-ready tools.  
111 | 
112 | ---
113 | 
114 | ## **Next Steps**
115 | - Contribute to open-source Golang projects in DevOps
116 | - Explore Go frameworks like Cobra (for CLI tools) and Fiber (for web APIs)
117 | - Learn how to package and distribute Go applications
118 | 
119 | ### 📌 **Happy Coding! 🚀**
120 | 


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