Switch to Go modules

[xmudrii]

What feature would you like to be added?

With Go modules being more and more stable and becoming default soon, we should consider switching to Go modules. Kubernetes has also switched to Go modules as of 1.15.

AC

• Switch to Go modules
• Make code generation works after switching to Go modules

Resources

kubernetes/kubernetes#74877
Introduction to Go modules by Jordan Liggitt

[xmudrii]

@eqrx You may find this interesting as you already tried to make this work.

[kron4eg]

for generation we'd still need vendor (which we can easily get by running go mod vendor).

[xmudrii]

As an example implementation, you can see how cert-manager switched to Go modules.