WIP: workflows: Try and install golang with actions/setup-go

With the go 1.25 bump we are hitting issues in our tests due
to gocov in the toolchain not being found. actions/setup-go
is supposed to be smarter about this than our manual install,
so give this a try.

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>

.github/workflows/build-checks.yaml

@@ -94,11 +94,28 @@ jobs:
           ./ci/install_yq.sh
         env:
           INSTALL_IN_GOPATH: false
-      - name: Install golang
+
+      - name: Read properties from versions.yaml
         if: contains(matrix.component.needs, 'golang')
         run: |
-          ./tests/install_go.sh -f -p
-          echo "/usr/local/go/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+          go_version="$(yq '.languages.golang.version' versions.yaml)"
+          [ -n "$go_version" ]
+          echo "GO_VERSION=${go_version}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      - name: Setup Golang version ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+        if: contains(matrix.component.needs, 'golang')
+        uses: actions/setup-go@7a3fe6cf4cb3a834922a1244abfce67bcef6a0c5 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }}
+          # Setup-go doesn't work properly with ppc64le: https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/648
+          architecture: ${{ contains(inputs.instance, 'ppc64le') && 'ppc64le' || '' }}
+
+      # - name: Install golang
+      #   if: contains(matrix.component.needs, 'golang')
+      #   run: |
+      #     ./tests/install_go.sh -f -p
+      #     echo "/usr/local/go/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+
       - name: Setup rust
         if: contains(matrix.component.needs, 'rust')
         run: |

src/runtime/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/runtime
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 // WARNING: Do NOT use `replace` directives as those break dependabot:
 // https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/11020

src/tools/csi-kata-directvolume/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module kata-containers/csi-kata-directvolume
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 // WARNING: Do NOT use `replace` directives as those break dependabot:
 // https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/11020

src/tools/log-parser/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/tools/log-parser
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 require (
 	github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.1.0

tests/.golangci.yml

@@ -1,34 +1,39 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017 Intel Corporation
-#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+
+version: "2"
 run:
   concurrency: 4
-  deadline: 600s
-
-issues:
-  exclude-dirs:
-    - vendor
-  exclude-files:
-    - ".*\\.pb\\.go$"
-
 linters:
-  disable-all: true
+  default: none
   enable:
     - gocyclo
-    - gofmt
-    - gosimple
     - govet
     - ineffassign
     - misspell
     - staticcheck
-    - typecheck
     - unused
-
-linters-settings:
-  gocyclo:
-    min_complexity: 15
-  unused:
-    check-exported: true
-  govet:
-    enable:
+  exclusions:
+    generated: lax
+    presets:
+      - comments
+      - common-false-positives
+      - legacy
+      - std-error-handling
+    paths:
+      - .*\.pb\.go$
+      - vendor
+      - third_party$
+      - builtin$
+      - examples$
+formatters:
+  enable:
+    - gofmt
+  exclusions:
+    generated: lax
+    paths:
+      - .*\.pb\.go$
+      - vendor
+      - third_party$
+      - builtin$
+      - examples$

tests/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module github.com/kata-containers/tests
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 // WARNING: Do NOT use `replace` directives as those break dependabot:
 // https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/11020

tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module example.com/m
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 require (
 	github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.3.2

tools/testing/kata-webhook/go.mod

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module module-path
 
 // Keep in sync with version in versions.yaml
-go 1.24.13
+go 1.25.7
 
 require (
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3

versions.yaml

@@ -465,12 +465,12 @@ languages:
     description: "Google's 'go' language"
     notes: "'version' is the default minimum version used by this project."
     # When updating this, also update in go.mod files.
-    version: "1.24.13"
+    version: "1.25.7"
     meta:
       description: |
         'newest-version' is the latest version known to work when
         building Kata
-      newest-version: "1.24.13"
+      newest-version: "1.25.7"
 
   rust:
     description: "Rust language"
@@ -487,12 +487,12 @@ languages:
     description: "golangci-lint"
     notes: "'version' is the default minimum version used by this project."
     url: "github.com/golangci/golangci-lint"
-    version: "1.64.8"
+    version: "2.9.0"
     meta:
       description: |
         'newest-version' is the latest version known to work when
         building Kata
-      newest-version: "1.64.8"
+      newest-version: "2.9.0"
 
 docker_images:
   description: "Docker images used for testing"