go-releaser.md

Release go-slalom

If you are working on a cli or application that you want to make available to your team or otherwise then you will want to create a github release and provide binaries.

Or you may want to create a release for your service with binaries and use those when creating an image.

Below will show you how to use goreleaser to release a go application. What does goreleaser do?

GoReleaser builds Go binaries for several platforms, creates a GitHub release and then pushes a Homebrew formula to a tap repository. All that wrapped in your favorite CI.

Use goreleaser

First install goreleaser

brew install goreleaser

goreleaser needs a github token to access your repository

export GITHUB_TOKEN=`YOUR_TOKEN`

It uses the latest tag applied to your repository. Create a tag if one does not exist

Note, the tag must adhere to semantic versioning.

$ git tag -a v0.1.0 -m "First release"
$ git push origin v0.1.0

You will also need to create a git repository for homebrew tap

• Create git repository with name homebrew-tap at https://github.com/new
• if you want to use a different name change the name at brew.github.name in .goreleaser.yml
• change the brew.github.owner value in .goreleaser.yml to your github handle.

Now run goreleaser!

goreleaser

It will create a release in your repository with a changelog (containing commits for the release) and attached binaries

You can use Homebrew to install it

brew tap $USER/homebrew-tap
brew install go-slalom

You should see similar output

==> Installing tredfield/tap/go-slalom
==> Downloading https://github.com/tredfield/go-slalom/releases/download/v0.0.1/go-slalom_0.0.1_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/184909404/22f48880-71d3-11e9-951b-d
######################################################################## 100.0%
/usr/local/Cellar/go-slalom/0.0.1: 4 files, 10MB, built in 6 seconds