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Top 9 Go Build Automation Projects
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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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earthly
Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.
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...
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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 -
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
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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.
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SaaSHub
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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).
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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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