Hari Sekhon - DevOps Golang Tools

February 3, 2026 · View on GitHub

DevOps Golang Tools

All programs have --help to list the available options.

Hari Sekhon

Cloud & Big Data Contractor, United Kingdom

https://www.linkedin.com/in/HariSekhon
(you're welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn)

Make sure you run make update if updating and not just git pull as you will often need the latest library submodule and possibly new upstream libraries

Quick Start

Ready to run Docker image

All programs and their pre-compiled dependencies can be found ready to run on DockerHub.

List all programs:

docker run harisekhon/go-tools

Run any given program:

docker run harisekhon/go-tools <program> <args>

Automated Build from source

installs git, make, pulls the repo and build the binaries:

curl -L https://git.io/go-bootstrap | sh

or manually:

git clone https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Golang-tools go-tools
cd go-tools
make

The make command automates building the go binaries which can then be copied around to other systems of the same family, eg. Linux or Mac.

Alternatively there is shebang magic which means each .go program can be called directly like a script and it'll runtime compile and execute instantly like a scripted language. This is a neat trick for quick usage and testing built on go run, but for frequent use the compiled binaries are usually the way to go.

Detailed Build Instructions are available further down.

Usage

All programs come with a --help switch which includes a program description and the list of command line options.

Environment variables are supported for convenience and also to hide credentials from being exposed in the process list eg. $PASSWORD, $TRAVIS_TOKEN. These are indicated in the --help descriptions in brackets next to each option and often have more specific overrides with higher precedence eg. $AMBARI_HOST, $HBASE_HOST take priority over $HOST.

DevOps Golang Tools - Inventory

Linux:
- uniq2.go - like uniq but you don't have to sort first and it preserves the ordering
- diffnet.go - simplifies diff output to show only lines added/removed, not moved, from patch files or stdin (pipe from standard diff or git diff commands)
- httpfirst.go - returns the first http/https url address argument to respond (fastest multi-threaded reply using go channels). More sophisticated version is find_active_server.py in the DevOps Python tools repo which can handle multi-master clusters, tcp sockets, regex etc.
- pldd.go - parses /proc on Linux to show the runtime .so loaded dynamic shared libraries a program pid is using. Runtime equivalent of the classic static ldd command and because the system pldd command often fails to attach to a process
- colors.go - prints a table of terminal colors and their escape codes for doing fancy shell stuff
- welcome.go - cool spinning welcome message greeting your username and showing last login time and user to put in your shell's .profile (there are also Python and Perl versions in my DevOps Python Tools and DevOps Perl Tools repos)

Detailed Build Instructions

Manual Setup

Enter the go-tools directory and run git submodule init and git submodule update to fetch my library repo:

git clone https://github.com/HariSekhon/DevOps-Golang-tools go-tools
cd go-tools
git submodule update --init
./compile.sh

Mac OS X

The automated build also works on Mac OS X but you'll need to install Apple XCode (on recent Macs just typing git is enough to trigger Xcode install).

I also recommend you get HomeBrew to install other useful tools and libraries you may need like OpenSSL for development headers and tools such as wget (these are installed automatically if Homebrew is detected on Mac OS X):