A workshop written and delivered bySteve Francia andAshley McNamara atOSCON2017 outlining the techniques, principles, and libraries you need to createuser-friendly command-line interfaces and command suites before walking youthrough building your own app. Along the way, you’ll cover everything from howto design and build commands to working with and parsing flags, config filesand remote config systems, and how to work with environment variables and12-factor apps. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a working knowledge ofGo and your very own functioning CLI app.

This workshop covers:

• CLI application design
• Introduction to the Go programming language
• Introduction to the Cobra CLI framework (used by Kubernetes, Docker, Hugo, etc)
• Building a Todo application in Go using Cobra

Participation expects general programming knowledge but no Go language experience is needed.

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