Network Automation with Go

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Introduction

Go has emerged as one of the top three most wanted programming languages according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 (Further reading), and it has become the preferred choice for writing cloud-native applications such as Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Despite this, we still don't see this trend manifest in the network engineering community, where fewer than 20% of network engineers saying they currently use Go for their network automation projects, according to the NetDevOps 2020 survey (Further reading), even though 41% of Go developers say they use Go for network programming in Go Developer Survey 2020 Results (Further reading).

This book strives to address this disparity by offering a practical ...