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golang (53) Versions 7.0.0 Follow23

Provides custom resources to install Go and Go packages

Policyfile

Berkshelf

Knife

cookbook 'golang', '~> 7.0.0', :supermarket

cookbook 'golang', '~> 7.0.0'

knife supermarket install golang

knife supermarket download golang

Golang (Go) Cookbook

Description

Chef cookbook for the Go programming language.

Requirements

Chef

Chef Infra Client >= 17.5

Platform

AlmaLinux >= 8
Amazon Linux >= 2023
CentOS Stream >= 9
Debian >= 12
Fedora latest
Oracle Linux >= 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux >= 8
Rocky Linux >= 8
Ubuntu >= 22.04

Usage

This cookbook no longer ships recipes or attributes. See [migration.md](migration.md) for the
breaking change from recipe[golang] and node['golang'] attributes to custom resources.

Install Go

golang 'default'

Install Go as a workspace user

golang 'default' do
  owner 'golang'
  group 'golang'
end

Install Go package binaries

golang_package 'golang.org/x/example/hello' do
  owner 'golang'
  group 'golang'
end

Resources

[golang](documentation/golang_golang.md)
[golang_package](documentation/golang_package.md)

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers!

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website.

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

CHANGELOG for golang

This file is used to list changes made in each version of golang.

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management
Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

7.0.0 (2026-05-13)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

Chef Infra Client 17.5 or later is now required because archive_file strip_components was introduced in Chef 17.5.

Features

remove ark dependency (#155) (229430f)

6.0.0 (2026-05-13)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

migrate golang to custom resources (#153)
Requires Chef >= 14.0.0

Features

Allow different versions for source/package (06bde5e)
Install binary w/ ark, simplify source build (59abc22)
migrate golang to custom resources (#153) (04c8575)
Update default to Golang 1.14.4 (96e1dad)
Use build_essential resource (779a9c5)

Bug Fixes

Add final step to CI GH Actions (3a45ae1)
ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#147) (71b56a8)
Clean up code per cookstyle (89e8fcd)
Drop unnecessary default actions (ae264c6)
Omit SCM package bzr on CentOS 8 (613f4c8)
Remove deleted attribute from Kitchen config (f9d65c4)
Remove duplicate attribute declarations (462f75f)
Remove symlink to de-dupe tests (113fa2e)
Set $PATH so defaults are last (3e40918)
Set SCM packages via attribute & update apt (2a7d333)
Update locations of hello example & go-check (f9a3af1)
Update URL for Golang itself (86c22bd)
Use cookbook name consistently (b44e332)

5.4.23 (2025-10-15)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#147) (71b56a8)

5.4.21 - 2024-11-18

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.20 - 2024-07-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.19 - 2024-05-23

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.11 - 2023-04-07

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.8 - 2023-04-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.7 - 2023-03-20

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.6 - 2023-03-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.4 - 2023-02-23

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.2 - 2023-02-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.1 - 2022-12-15

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.4.0 - 2022-08-08

Use node['golang']['install_dir'] attribute in default recipe.
Fix source installation issues

5.3.3 - 2022-08-07

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.3.2 - 2022-02-09

Remove delivery and move to calling RSpec directly via a reusable workflow
Update tested platforms
Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.3.1 - 2021-08-30

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.3.0 - 2021-07-15

Fix unified_mode declaration
Bump ark dependency to one with unified_mode set

5.2.0 - 2021-06-04

Update example package to adhere with modern Go standards

5.1.0 - 2021-06-03

Fix resource to use the correct path in GOPATH profile.d template

5.0.1 - 2021-06-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.0.0 - 2021-05-21

Require chef 15.3 or greater
Use unified_mode for chef 17 support

4.1.1 - 2021-02-03

Use node['golang']['scm'] and node['golang']['scm_packages'] attributes in default recipe.

4.1.0

Create a custom resource to install Go from source or by downloading a package

4.0.0

Update testing setup:
- Use Chef Workstation instead of Rubygems
- Includes dropping foodcritic in favor of current cookstyle
- Add more recent & current distro versions
- Add very basic unit tests
- Use GitHub Actions instead of Travis CI
Refactor minitest to Inspec
Refactor to use current style of Chef Custom Resource
Update default version to Go v1.14.4
Use build_essential when building from source
- Requires Chef >= 14.0.0
Omit attempting to install bzr on CentOS 8, they do not have that package available
Utilize default Chef order-of-operations instead of notifies
Use ark resource to simplify download & installation of binary & source
Clean up unnecessary env vars from source build
Build from source per official Go docs
Use native resources instead of shell commands when building from source
Set $PATH in golang.sh so that the existing values are last, per general practice
Tighten up golang_package so it does not perform actions at compile time, it uses execute in favor of bash resources, and in general is more Chef-y
Update tests to validate that non-root users can install Go and Go packages
Refactor attributes to add ability to install a version from source that differs from the packaged version (which is needed to build from source)

3.0.0

rename to chef-golang so that metadata name matches repositoriy name

2.0.0

change attribute namespace to node['golang']

1.7.2

Better chef12,13 support
Ruby 2.3
Update gems, lint

1.7.1

Create a temporary directory

1.7.0

Golang 1.5

1.6.2

Ability to install from source

1.6.0

Removed support for Ruby 1.9.3

1.5.1

Fix testing with Vagrant, Test-Kitchen
Golang 1.4

1.5.0

Golang 1.3

1.4.0

Add build action to LWRP
Update default go version to 1.2.2
Add autodetection the platform architecture
Change package location to http://golang.org/dl/

1.1.0

Added package LWRP
Configurable gopath & gobin

1.0.2

Lets users easily specify another install dir

1.0.1

Avoid extra unpacked copy of Go

1.0.0

Initial release of golang

Collaborator Number Metric

7.0.0 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

7.0.0 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

7.0.0 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

7.0.0 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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Updated May 13, 2026 Created on April 22, 2013

Supported Platforms

License

Apache-2.0

Required Chef Infra Client

(>= 17.5)

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