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> Devs tend to install upstream tools instead of the out of date RHEL tools too.

and system administrators tend to install packaged tools instead of upstream tools that aren't tested to play well with the rest of the system.

Perhaps installing directly from upstream makes sense for Go, but the servers I maintain either run distro-packed software or custom software.

Too many bad experiences with upstream packages to trust on production.

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Go applications do not need golang itself installed like a python or ruby. You can create the binaries on any machine and just ship the executable and it’s assets if applicable. The binary is static and contains everything it needs to run. Using grafana and influxdb as an example which might be familiar to sysadmins those packages do not need golang installed.

That was my point. If you are deploying a golang based application, there is nothing to install other than the binary produced by the dev team.

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