Distribute cmd utilities as binary files

[theletterf]

Component(s)

cmd/configschema, cmd/githubgen, cmd/mdatagen, cmd/opampsupervisor, cmd/otelcontribcol, cmd/oteltestbedcol, cmd/telemetrygen

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It'd be great if one could install the cmd utilities directly, using a package manager or a downloader, instead of having to clone the entire repo and compile each package. This is especially relevant for tools like telemetrygen, which are key to testing and learning.

Describe the solution you'd like

It'd be great to distribute the binary files of the cmd utilities.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

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Pinging code owners:

• cmd/configschema: @mx-psi @dmitryax @pmcollins
• cmd/githubgen: @atoulme
• cmd/mdatagen: @dmitryax
• cmd/opampsupervisor: @evan-bradley @atoulme @tigrannajaryan
• cmd/telemetrygen: @mx-psi @codeboten

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[mx-psi]

This is especially relevant for tools like telemetrygen, which are key to testing and learning.

For telemetrygen we have a Docker image:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkgs/container/opentelemetry-collector-contrib%2Ftelemetrygen

But I agree it would be nice to also release binaries for it.

I am not sure we want to release binaries for the rest just yet; most are meant for internal usage and may heavily change from one version to the next, and the supervisor is under development yet.

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Pinging code owners:

• cmd/telemetrygen: @mx-psi @codeboten
• cmd/mdatagen: @dmitryax
• cmd/configschema: @mx-psi @dmitryax @pmcollins
• cmd/opampsupervisor: @evan-bradley @atoulme @tigrannajaryan
• cmd/githubgen: @atoulme

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[theletterf]

Any news on this?

[mx-psi]

I personally don't think we are at the point where we can guarantee any stability on anything other than telemetrygen. I would like to consider them case by case, and possibly move them to opentelemetry-go-build-tools instead of this repository if they are meant for public consumption

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Pinging code owners:

• cmd/telemetrygen: @mx-psi @codeboten
• cmd/mdatagen: @dmitryax
• cmd/configschema: @mx-psi @dmitryax
• cmd/opampsupervisor: @evan-bradley @atoulme @tigrannajaryan
• cmd/githubgen: @atoulme

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[atoulme]

You can install telemetrygen with one line using:

go install github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/cmd/telemetrygen@latest

Unfortunately, I don't think we can otherwise distribute binaries at release time - it's easier to use go install on your local machine.

I'm going to close this as such, please reopen and vote up if you feel this can be done better.