Best practices for distributing and updating a Go CLI on Linux?

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  • goreleaser

    Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible

  • I use goreleaser for packaging my binaries. I'm not currently doing RPM, but it does a lot of services and if you don't hunker down on a single solution, it might help with keeping your releases up to date/in sync.

  • dbt

    A delivery system for running self-updating, signed tools. (by nikogura)

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  • urfave/cli

    A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)

  • Can you use a framework like urfavecli https://github.com/urfave/cli? This will auto-update every time it detects a new version from your CLI's GitHub repository

  • go-selfupdate

    Enable your Go applications to self update

  • go-selfupdate

  • go-rocket-update

    Easy to use and modular library to make self updating golang programs

  • go-rocket-update

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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