RHOSDT OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution

This repository configures a build of the OpenTelemetry Collector with the supported components for a Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing product.

Update collector version

1. Update Makefile and manifest.yaml to select the desired upstream version and component selection for the product release.
2. Run make build generate-schemas or make build-in-podman
3. Update changelog in RPM spec
4. Create a pull request with the changes, including changes in the _build directory.

Update OBI version

The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) receiver is pinned in two places that must be kept in sync:

• manifest.yaml declares the module version, e.g. go.opentelemetry.io/obi v0.10.0.
• .obi-src is a git submodule (see .gitmodules) pinned to a specific commit. A replace directive in manifest.yaml (go.opentelemetry.io/obi => ../.obi-src) redirects the module to this local checkout, so the submodule commit is what actually gets built. The eBPF artifacts are generated from it by make generate-obi.

To bump to a new OBI release (e.g. v0.11.0):

1. Move the submodule to the matching upstream tag or commit:

   git -C .obi-src fetch --tags
   git -C .obi-src checkout v0.11.0
   git add .obi-src
   

2. Update the module version string in manifest.yaml to match (go.opentelemetry.io/obi v0.11.0).
3. Run make build generate-schemas or make build-in-podman. This regenerates the OBI eBPF artifacts and the contents of the _build directory.
4. Create a pull request with the changes, including the updated submodule pointer, manifest.yaml, and the _build directory.

Release

git tag v0.48.0 && git push origin v0.48.0

RPM

To build srpm and rpms we used packit.

# build srpm 
make clean packit/srpm

# build rpm (includes srpm)
make clean packit/rpm/mock

Install from Copr

dnf copr enable frzifus/redhat-opentelemetry-collector-main 
dnf install -y opentelemetry-collector

Tests

The end-to-end tests are located at openshift/distributed-tracing-qe/tests/e2e-otel.