How do I get the local IP address in Go?

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Here is a better solution to retrieve the preferred outbound ip address when there are multiple ip interfaces exist on the machine.

import (
    "log"
    "net"
    "strings"
)

// Get preferred outbound ip of this machine
func GetOutboundIP() net.IP {
    conn, err := net.Dial("udp", "8.8.8.8:80")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer conn.Close()

    localAddr := conn.LocalAddr().(*net.UDPAddr)

    return localAddr.IP
}

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