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stage: Package
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group: Package
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Go proxy for GitLab **(FREE)**
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> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/27376) in GitLab 13.1.
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> - It's deployed behind a feature flag, disabled by default.
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> - It's disabled for GitLab.com.
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> - To use it in GitLab self-managed instances, ask a GitLab administrator to [enable it](#enable-the-go-proxy).
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> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221259) from GitLab Premium to GitLab Free in 13.3.
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WARNING:
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The Go package registry for GitLab is under development and isn't ready for production use due to
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limited functionality. This [epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3043) details the remaining
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work and timelines to make it production ready.
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With the Go proxy for GitLab, every project in GitLab can be fetched with the
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[Go proxy protocol](https://proxy.golang.org/).
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For documentation of the specific API endpoints that the Go Proxy uses, see the
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[Go Proxy API documentation](../../../api/packages/go_proxy.md).
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## Enable the Go proxy
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The Go proxy for GitLab is under development, and isn't ready for production use
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due to [potential performance issues with large repositories](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/218083).
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It's deployed behind a feature flag that is _disabled by default_.
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[GitLab administrators with access to the GitLab Rails console](../../../administration/feature_flags.md)
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can enable it for your instance.
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To enable it:
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```ruby
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Feature.enable(:go_proxy) # or
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```
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To disable it:
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```ruby
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Feature.disable(:go_proxy)
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```
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To enable or disable it for specific projects:
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```ruby
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Feature.enable(:go_proxy, Project.find(1))
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Feature.disable(:go_proxy, Project.find(2))
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```
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NOTE:
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Even if it's enabled, GitLab doesn't display Go modules in the **Package Registry**.
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Follow [this issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213770) for
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details.
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## Add GitLab as a Go proxy
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To use GitLab as a Go proxy, you must be using Go 1.13 or later.
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The available proxy endpoint is for fetching modules by project: `/api/v4/projects/:id/packages/go`
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To fetch Go modules from GitLab, add the project-specific endpoint to `GOPROXY`.
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Go queries the endpoint and falls back to the default behavior:
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```shell
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go env -w GOPROXY='https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1234/packages/go,https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
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```
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With this configuration, Go fetches dependencies in this order:
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1. Go attempts to fetch from the project-specific Go proxy.
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1. Go attempts to fetch from [proxy.golang.org](https://proxy.golang.org).
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1. Go fetches directly with version control system operations (like `git clone`,
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`svn checkout`, and so on).
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If `GOPROXY` isn't specified, Go follows steps 2 and 3, which corresponds to
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setting `GOPROXY` to `https://proxy.golang.org,direct`. If `GOPROXY`
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contains only the project-specific endpoint, Go queries only that endpoint.
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For details about how to set Go environment variables, see
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[Set environment variables](#set-environment-variables).
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For details about configuring `GOPROXY`, see
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[Dependency Management in Go > Proxies](../../../development/go_guide/dependencies.md#proxies).
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## Fetch modules from private projects
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`go` doesn't support transmitting credentials over insecure connections. The
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following steps work only if GitLab is configured for HTTPS:
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1. Configure Go to include HTTP basic authentication credentials when fetching
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from the Go proxy for GitLab.
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1. Configure Go to skip downloading of checksums for private GitLab projects
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from the public checksum database.
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### Enable request authentication
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Create a [personal access token](../../profile/personal_access_tokens.md) with
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the scope set to `api` or `read_api`.
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Open your [`~/.netrc`](https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/netrc) file
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and add the following text. Replace the variables in `< >` with your values.
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```plaintext
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machine <url> login <username> password <token>
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```
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- `<url>`: The GitLab URL, for example `gitlab.com`.
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- `<username>`: Your username.
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- `<token>`: Your personal access token.
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### Disable checksum database queries
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When downloading dependencies with Go 1.13 and later, fetched sources are
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validated against the checksum database `sum.golang.org`.
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If the checksum of the fetched sources doesn't match the checksum from the
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database, Go doesn't build the dependency.
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Private modules fail to build because `sum.golang.org` can't fetch the source
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of private modules, and so it cannot provide a checksum.
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To resolve this issue, set `GONOSUMDB` to a comma-separated list of private
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projects. For details about setting Go environment variables, see
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[Set environment variables](#set-environment-variables). For more details about
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disabling this feature of Go, see
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[Dependency Management in Go > Checksums](../../../development/go_guide/dependencies.md#checksums).
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For example, to disable checksum queries for `gitlab.com/my/project`, set
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`GONOSUMDB`:
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```shell
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go env -w GONOSUMDB='gitlab.com/my/project,<previous value>'
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```
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## Working with Go
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If you're unfamiliar with managing dependencies in Go, or Go in general, review
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the following documentation:
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- [Dependency Management in Go](../../../development/go_guide/dependencies.md)
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- [Go Modules Reference](https://go.dev/ref/mod)
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- [Documentation (`golang.org`)](https://go.dev/doc/)
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- [Learn (`go.dev/learn`)](https://go.dev/learn/)
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### Set environment variables
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Go uses environment variables to control various features. You can manage these
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variables in all the usual ways. However, Go 1.14 reads and writes Go
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environment variables to and from a special Go environment file, `~/.go/env` by
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default.
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- If `GOENV` is set to a file, Go reads and writes to and from that file instead.
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- If `GOENV` is not set but `GOPATH` is set, Go reads and writes `$GOPATH/env`.
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Go environment variables can be read with `go env <var>` and, in Go 1.14 and
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later, can be written with `go env -w <var>=<value>`. For example,
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`go env GOPATH` or `go env -w GOPATH=/go`.
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### Release a module
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Go modules and module versions are defined by source repositories, such as Git,
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SVN, and Mercurial. A module is a repository that contains `go.mod` and Go
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files. Module versions are defined by version control system (VCS) tags.
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To publish a module, push `go.mod` and source files to a VCS repository. To
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publish a module version, push a VCS tag.
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See [Dependency Management in Go > Versioning](../../../development/go_guide/dependencies.md#versioning)
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for more details about what constitutes a valid module or module version.
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