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We were previously running a very old untagged commit of this module, and the code in this module has been rearranged a lot in the meantime making it hard to compare, but it seems like it's still implementing essentially the same main functionality for tracing setup, just now extended for more elaborate forms of the standard OpenTelemetry environment variables. Unfortunately, the purpose of this module is to make dynamic runtime decisions about exactly which transports to use and so this new version brings in many additional indirect dependencies than before, most of which are irrelevant for OpenTofu's current purposes because they related to the logging and tracing parts of OpenTelemetry, whereas OpenTofu currently focuses only on tracing. The logging and metrics part of OpenTelemetry were still very early and experimental at the time of the commit we previously depended on, and so it seems that the main upstream change here has been improved support for those other use-cases. Most of these new indirect dependencies are therefore unreachable at runtime by OpenTofu in practice. For OpenTofu's purposes the only significant new capability here is to set OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER to "console" to write trace information to stdout, but that remains unreachable in OpenTofu in practice because we currently ignore that environment variable unless it is set to "otlp" exactly. We could consider supporting "console" in a future release, but this mode is questionable for OpenTofu because writing to stdout would interfere with OpenTofu's main UI or machine-readable output. We'll wait for another day to discuss the tradeoffs of that. Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
OpenTofu
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The key features of OpenTofu are:
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