/tags/versioning/ Recent content in Versioning on Brodie Kurczynski Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a> Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:40:23 -0700 /posts/2024/07/go-application-version/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:40:23 -0700 /posts/2024/07/go-application-version/ Until recently, I didn&rsquo;t really think about how to get an application&rsquo;s version into its binary without some horrendous use of sed or manually changing hardcoded values. Normally my application&rsquo;s version is just the Docker image tag, but how do I get the version info into the actually binary? Digging through the internet I found a super easy way to have the linker do it with ldflags. Just create a global variable where your main function lives: