govmomi

Go library for the VMware vSphere API

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Go library for the VMware vSphere API

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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q3k·Mar 22, 2021

> So as it currently stands I have no idea what those modules are and what am I loading? vim25? Is that the text editor vim? Take any of these imports, append it to https://godoc.org/, and see. For example, github.com/vmware/govmomi/ becomes http://godoc.org/github.com/vmware/govmomi/ , which tells you: govmovi: A Go library for interacting with VMware vSphere APIs (ESXi and/or vCenter). Everything underneath govmovi is subpackages of it, so `find`, `view`, `vim25/mo`, and `vim25/types` are all govmovi packages. You can also visit them on godoc to read documentation, if the code authors followed documentation best practices. These are imports like in any other language. They are, however, nearly always based on a global URL, and thus have a godoc page that you can visit and read the docs for immediately. They are also always qualifie

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d, so if you wanna find all all uses of govmovi/vim25/mo, just C-f for "mo." in your codebase. No `from foo import *` equivalent exists in Go, which is one of my favourite features of this language.

In The ecosystem of the Go programming language

doublerabbit·Mar 22, 2021

Sure. We use Prometheus exporters, most of the exporters are written in Go. And this is a snip from the vmware-exporter for our VMware estate. metrics.go The first throw was this: import ( "context" "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus" log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" "github.com/vmware/govmomi/find" "github.com/vmware/govmomi/view" "github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/mo" "github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/types" So as it currently stands I have no idea what those modules are and what I am loading. Browsing each of those repos sure will tell me, but that's not my role. My role is to make X operational. And if that repo doesn't exist anymore and you go to compile, it fails. More overhead if I need to make changes to any of those modules. I would need to git clone it somewhere, make the change and then either reco

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mmit it to git, or do something to make it locally available. At least with NPM, CPAN they are local to the file system. So lets start: var ( prometheusHostPowerState = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(prometheus.GaugeOpts{ Namespace: namespace, Subsystem: "host", Name: "power_state", Help: "poweredOn 1, poweredOff 2, standBy 3, other 0", }, []string{"host_name"}) I understand all of that. Power_state, display the help, power status description etc, however prometheus.NewGaugeVec -- Sounds great. What is it? Where do I find this? What module is this related too? That's where it falls down for me. I now have to duck in to the rabbit hole of github to find out where that function is phrased and in this sense "under-the-hood" could also count for library .pm files in perl, but now having to navigate GitHub really messes with my workflow.

In The ecosystem of the Go programming language

rhencke·Feb 7, 2018

One of the nicest parts of this library, to me, is the 'govc' command which it provides: https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/tree/master/govc It fits in really nicely with plain-old Bash scripts, and has some niceties such as being able to output dumps of data as both human-readable and to JSON for further manipulation/inspection (e.g. jq)

In Go Library for the VMware vSphere API

alexellisuk·Feb 7, 2018Submission

Go Library for the VMware vSphere API

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