Go Build Automation

Open-source Go projects categorized as Build Automation

Top 9 Go Build Automation Projects

Build Automation
  1. harness

    Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. (by harness)

    Project mention: Harness Open Source: All-in-One Software Delivery Platform for Developers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-25
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  3. earthly

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

    Project mention: The Pain That Is GitHub Actions | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    There is at a tiny glimmer of life on the earthly front - yesterday, they merged their first changes in 6 months:

    [1] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/commit/6d7f6786ad9fa4392f...

  4. keploy

    Unit, API & Integration Testing Agent for Developers. Generate tests, mocks/stubs for your APIs that actually work!

    Project mention: Keploy – Open-Source AI-Powered API, Integration, Unit Testing Agent Developers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08
  5. mage

    a Make/rake-like dev tool using Go

    Project mention: Just: Just a Command Runner | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-07

    Several comments mention Task/Taskfile already, which is very similar in that you define tasks in YAML.

    I think it's worth mentioning Mage/Magefile [1][2] as well, where your tasks are actual Go code. Similar to how Rake is for tasks in Ruby code.

    It's useful when you have complex tasks.

    It's like using Pulumi instead of Terraform.

    [1] https://magefile.org/

    [2] https://github.com/magefile/mage

  6. xc

    Markdown defined task runner.

    Project mention: Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08

    I found this a few years ago and was quite inspired by it. I then more recently found https://xcfile.dev/ which is a great way to implement these sort of scripts directly in the project's README.

  7. goyek

    Task automation Go library

  8. pacur

    Automated deb, rpm and pkgbuild build system

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. go-boilerplate

    Production-ready Go RESTful API boilerplate with Echo

  11. grml

    A simple build automation tool written in Go

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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Build Automation projects in Go? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 harness 32,767
2 earthly 11,739
3 keploy 9,905
4 mage 4,331
5 xc 1,280
6 goyek 619
7 pacur 235
8 go-boilerplate 188
9 grml 14

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