Technical requirements

This chapter will use Python code to directly configure and use backends from a test application. To ensure your environment is set up correctly, run the following commands and ensure Python 3.6 or greater is installed on your system:

$ python --version
Python 3.8.9
$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.9

If you do not have Python 3.6+ installed, go to the Python website (https://www.python.org/downloads/) for instructions on installing the latest version.

To test out some of the exporters we'll be using in the chapter, install the following OpenTelemetry packages via pip:

$ pip install opentelemetry-distro \
              opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger \
              opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin

Additionally, we will use Docker (https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) to deploy backends. The following code will...