Summary

This chapter was an exciting one that expanded our understanding of where we are running the Go applications that we write. We learned how to run our Go code in the cloud, all packaged up nicely and providing us with the monitoring insights that we need to ensure success for our services.

We started with understanding why and how to make our Go application code instrumented with monitoring using Prometheus. That was a nice segue into gaining even richer insights into our application using OpenTelemetry. We then demonstrated how to containerize our application using Docker, and then looked at how to run that containerized application in an orchestrated environment, such as in Kubernetes. We’ve covered a lot of ground in this chapter and in this book in its entirety.

Over the course of the book, we have covered the basics of Go with variables and various type declarations. We moved into control flow and data rules with Go, to include some of the newest features of...