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+title: 'Automatically release Go app with Goreleaser and Github'
+description: "We're taking a look at how to automatically release Go applications with Goreleaser and Github"
+tags: ['go', 'golang', 'github', 'automation']
+date: 2021-08-24T01:02:53+02:00
+draft: true
+---
+
+One of the biggest benefits of Go is that you can distribute your application as a single binary and it's pretty simple for Go programmers to install any Go app using `go install`. But most times you also want to provide a way for non-Go users to download your application, so in this post we're going to take a look at how you automatically can publish a new release on Github with GoReleaser that will include your binary.
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+<!--more-->
+
+## What is GoReleaser?
+
+- brief introduction
+- why we need goreleaser
+- ease of use
+
+## Setup our sample project
+
+- create a new gorelaser-example repo with a small golang app
+- add the finished project as another branch
+- git clone repo
+
+## Install GoReleaser locally
+
+- use brew for macos
+
+## Create GoReleaser config
+
+- `goreleaser init`
+- change archives format to binary
+
+## Testing gorelease before activating in prod
+
+- how to to use the --skip-publish and --snapshot params
+
+## Add goreleaser to Github Actions workflow
+
+- only trigger when a new tag is pushed