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Does otel agent support AWS MSK authentication via provider chain? #10073

Open nurdann opened 4 months ago

nurdann commented 4 months ago

From https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/2503, it looks like you have to provide username and password.

Is it possible to specify which entity to use for authentication? Like instance profile or pod identity or profile name https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/credentials-chain.html

bogdandrutu commented 4 months ago

Does otel agent support AWS MSK authentication via provider chain?

Which component of the collector?

nurdann commented 2 months ago

For both receiver and exporter I'd say