Technical requirements

This chapter will cover a few different tools that we can use to deploy the collector. We will be using containers to run the sample application and collector; all the examples are available from the public Docker container registry (https://hub.docker.com). Although we won't dive too deeply into what containers are, just know that containers provide a convenient way to build, package, and deploy self-contained applications that are immutable. For us to run containers locally, we will use Docker, just as we did in Chapter 2, OpenTelemetry Signals - Traces, Metrics and Logs. The following is a list of the technical requirements for this chapter:

• If you don't already have Docker installed on your machine, follow the instructions available at https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ to get started on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Once you have it installed, run the following command from a Terminal. If everything is working correctly, there should be no...