Create a gateway distribution

[atoulme]

This issue tracks the support and design of a distribution proposal.

Proposal:
Create a distribution of the collector that is meant for use as a gateway, a process able to listen for data in various protocols, process it and export in OTLP.

This distribution doesn't run any background process such as scrapers, it should only use resources based on the volume of data transiting through the collector.

Proposed manifest:

dist:
  module: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/gateway
  name: otelcol-gateway
  description: OpenTelemetry Collector Gateway
  version: 0.119.0
  output_path: ./_build

extensions:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/extension/zpagesextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/ackextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/asapauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/awsproxy v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/basicauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/bearertokenauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/encoding/jaegerencodingextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/encoding/jsonlogencodingextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/encoding/otlpencodingextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/encoding/zipkinencodingextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/googleclientauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/headerssetterextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/healthcheckextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/httpforwarderextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/jaegerremotesampling v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/oauth2clientauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/dockerobserver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/ecsobserver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/ecstaskobserver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/hostobserver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/observer/k8sobserver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/oidcauthextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/opampextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/pprofextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/sigv4authextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/storage/filestorage v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/storage/dbstorage v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/storage/redisstorageextension v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/extension/sumologicextension v0.119.0

exporters:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/debugexporter v0.119.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/nopexporter v0.119.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlpexporter v0.119.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlphttpexporter v0.119.0

processors:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/batchprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/processor/memorylimiterprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/attributesprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/cumulativetodeltaprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/deltatocumulativeprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/deltatorateprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/filterprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/geoipprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/groupbyattrsprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/groupbytraceprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/intervalprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/k8sattributesprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/logdedupprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/metricsgenerationprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/metricstransformprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/probabilisticsamplerprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/redactionprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/remotetapprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/resourceprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/spanprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/sumologicprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/tailsamplingprocessor v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/processor/transformprocessor v0.119.0

receivers:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/nopreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/receiver/otlpreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/awsfirehosereceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/awsxrayreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/azureeventhubreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/carbonreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/cloudflarereceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/collectdreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/influxdbreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/jaegerreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/kafkareceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/lokireceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/namedpipereceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/opencensusreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/otelarrowreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/sapmreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/signalfxreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/skywalkingreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/splunkhecreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/statsdreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/tcplogreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/udplogreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/wavefrontreceiver v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/receiver/zipkinreceiver v0.119.0

connectors:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/connector/forwardconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/countconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/exceptionsconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/failoverconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/otlpjsonconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/roundrobinconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/routingconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/servicegraphconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/spanmetricsconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/sumconnector v0.119.0
  - gomod: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/connector/signaltometricsconnector v0.119.0

providers:
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/envprovider v1.25.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/fileprovider v1.25.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpprovider v1.25.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/httpsprovider v1.25.0
  - gomod: go.opentelemetry.io/collector/confmap/provider/yamlprovider v1.25.0

[TylerHelmuth]

@atoulme can you writeup the proposed Rules for Component Inclusion for this distribution? Example here.

[atoulme]

@TylerHelmuth I have added the rules in the PR #845

[jackgopack4]

wondering if it makes more sense, given that many customers already build custom collectors, if we should consider having "example distributions" with a folder full of manifests for suggested configurations, without having to produce several more artifacts on each release for new distributions.