This post is based on a section of the “Everything You Need to Know to Start with Go” post. Since than I realised that this post will be my own personal version of Awesome-Go, I will regularly update that post but as the Go communinity is booming, the interesting projects would just take over the rest of the material there, so I decided to create a separate post for cool, interesting projects being done in Go. Only projects which have an open source component will make this list.
Containers
Docker / Moby - container ecosystem
Kubernetes - Container Scheduling and Management (Apache-2.0, stable, v1.6.4)
Consul - Service Discovery and Configuration (MPL-2.0, pre-stable, v0.8.3)
Nomad - Distributed, Highly Available, Datacenter-Aware Scheduler (MPL-2.0, pre-stable, v0.5.6)
Logging, alerting, metrics
Prometheus - monitoring system and time series database (Apache-2.0, stable, 1.6.3)
InfluxDB - scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (MIT, stable, v1.2.4)
Grafana - beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards (Apache-2.0, stable, v4.3.1)
OKLog - distributed and coördination-free log management system (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, v0.2.1)
Telegraf - plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics (MIT, stable, 1.3.0)
Bosun - Time Series Alerting Framework (MIT, pre-stable, 0.5.0)
Zap - structured, leveled logging (MIT, stable, v1.4.0)
Servers
Traefik - reverse proxy (MIT, stable, v1.2.3)
Websocketd - Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server (BSD-2-clause, pre-stable, v0.2.12)
Other DevOps
OpenFaaS - Functions as a Service (MIT, alpha, 0.6.6)
Apex - Build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions (MIT, pre-stable, v0.14.0)
syncthing - Continuous File Synchronization (MPL 2.0, pre-stable, v0.14.28)
Teleport - Modern SSH server for clusters and teams (Apache-2.0, stable, v2.0.6)
Minio - Minio is an open source object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, ???)
Testing
Databases
CockroachDB - the scalable, survivable, strongly-consistent SQL database (custom, stable, v1.0.1)
TiDB - distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, rc)
dgraph - graph database (AGPL-3.0, alpha, 0.7.7)
tile38 - geospatial database (MIT, stable, 1.9.0)
etcd - key-value store (Apache-2.0, stable, v3.1.8)
cayley - graph database (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, v0.6.1)
Kallax - PostgreSQL typesafe ORM (MIT, stable, v1.2.5)
Frontend
GopherJs - compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser (BSD-2-clause, pre-stable, none)
CMSs and other project shortcuts
Ponzu - CMS (BSD-3-clause, pre-stable, 0.9.2)
Hugo - static website engine (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, v0.21)
Source code
Gogs - painless self-hosted Git service (MIT, pre-stable, 0.11.4)
Grumpy is a Python to Go source code transcompiler and runtime (Apache-2.0, pre-stable, ???)
Security