Top 7 Go Build Automation Projects

drone

18 26,879 5.3 Go

Drone is a Container-Native, Continuous Delivery Platform

Project mention: I want my portfolio project on Github to be public to everyone, but I don't want somebody to copy it and use commercially because propably some day I would like to do it myself with this project. What license should I use? | reddit.com/r/github | 2023-05-30

You can check the drone license or sentry license.
earthly

6 9,144 9.8 Go

Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.

Project mention: Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2023-03-02

earthly
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mage

4 3,553 1.3 Go

a Make/rake-like dev tool using Go

Project mention: Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2023-03-02

mage
xc

8 846 10.0 Go

Markdown defined task runner.

Project mention: Self-documenting task runner, define tasks in the README | reddit.com/r/programming | 2023-04-19
goyek

7 381 2.6 Go

Build automation in Go

Project mention: Reason to use other Build Tool than Make? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2023-05-19

You can also take a look at https://github.com/goyek/goyek. Personally I use either Make or goyek. Disclaimer: I am the author of goyek
pacur

1 202 10.0 Go

Automated deb, rpm and pkgbuild build system

Project mention: pacur: Automated deb, rpm and pkgbuild build system | reddit.com/r/linux | 2023-04-21
grml

1 15 0.0 Go

A simple build automation tool written in Go

Project mention: Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-15

I agree. That's why we use the small grml tool as task/command runner in all our projects.
https://github.com/desertbit/grml
SonarLint

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-05-30.