Upgrade Go Guide

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Shwetha Gururaj edited this page May 17, 2024 · 4 revisions

This procedure describes how to upgrade Golang for the cf CLI project.

Phase 1: Confirm that upgrade works locally:

Read the release notes: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html
Run go get -u golang.org/x/<pkg> for golang.org/x/ packages we directly depend on
- Make sure to rerun the unit and integration tests. (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#development-environment-setup).
Push changes made to cf cli repo.

Phase 2: Update Pipeline:

Update and push the ci/cli-base/Dockerfile image's FROM golang:<major>.<minor> . Then run the create-cli-base-image Concourse Job.

Phase 3: Finalize Changes:

Update the version number in the developer guide