How To Work With Private Go Repositories

Introduction

Go works seamlessly when the code that you are working with resides in public repositories. However, suppose you maintain your projects in private repositories. In that case, you need to tweak your environment a little to be able to work with your private Go modules.

In this lecture, you’ll learn:

• How to version and export Go modules.
• How to import Go modules.
• And how to configure your system to allow importing private Go modules.

Lecture

Let’s jump right in:

Resources and Additional Reading

Bedtime Reading

Here are additional study material about some of the concepts that we’ve covered in this lecture:

• What are Microservices
• GOPRIVATE Environment
• Using Modules in Go
• Private Modules
• Why Does go get Use https When Cloning a Repository?
• Go Module Mirror, Index, and Checksum Database
• Glob
• Z-Shell User Guide
• Bash Reference Manual
• An Overview of Go’s Tooling
• Pro Git Book
• Git Configuration

Tools, Apps, and Services Mentioned

Here are the tools, apps, and services I’ve used or talked about in this lecture:

• Git Tower
• FizzBuzz Pro

Conclusion

In this mini video, you’ve learned how to work with private Go modules and import from private repositories; and tag, export, and publish private Go repositories. In the additional resources section, we also briefly mentioned various Z-Shell startup files.

Note

You can check out this Zero to Hero article about Z-Shell Startup Files for more information about the subject.

We’ll have more fun with Go in the upcoming videos and articles.

Until then… May the source be with you 🦄.