Install the Aerospike client

Prerequisites

Go version v1.21+.

To install the latest stable version of Go, see http://golang.org/dl/. Your package manager may also have go. To see if go is installed and working, try go version.

The Aerospike Go client implements the Aerospike network protocols in pure Go, and does not depend on the C client. It is goroutine friendly, and works asynchronously.

Supported operating systems:

Major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Amazon)
macOS
Windows (untested)

Installation

Install Go v1.21 or later and set up your environment as documented here. Your package manager may offer another way to install Go. To see if Go is installed and working, run go version at the command line.
Fetch the Aerospike Go client from GitHub:
Terminal window
```
go get github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go/v8
```

Update the client library:

go get -u github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go/v8

Testing

The Aerospike Go client package contains a number of tests.

Tests require Ginkgo and Gomega library.

go get github.com/onsi/ginkgo
go get github.com/onsi/gomega

Before running the tests, update dependencies:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go/tools/benchmark
go get .

To run all test cases with race detection:

ginkgo -r -race -- -h 127.0.0.1 -p 3000