Improve vendor fork experience

[cartersocha]

Vendors need proper documentation and repo improvements to ensure their forks aren't difficult to maintain.

[cartersocha]

I think the main outstanding item here is configure the helm chart for new vendors.

FYI @joshleecreates, @austinlparker

[julianocosta89]

Do you mean documenting this?
https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C03B4CWV4DA/p1664974983694979

[cartersocha]

That link isn't redirecting properly for me so not sure. But at least have something like this documented for kubernetes

[cartersocha]

I'd be curious if vendors would like more specific documentation around forking + maintaining too. Microsoft doesn't have a fork today so I don't have a lived perspective

[julianocosta89]

What I meant to share was the comment on slack by @puckpuck showing how to use helm to deploy the demo and configure the collector to a specific vendor

[joshleecreates]

I can take a first stab at documenting the fork process this week.

[joshleecreates]

I'd be curious if vendors would like more specific documentation around forking + maintaining too. Microsoft doesn't have a fork today so I don't have a lived perspective

From my perspective the key part will be documenting the options available via custom a custom values file. That covers all of the use cases Instana will need for our fork.

[cartersocha]

Yeah that'd be great to get @joshleecreates

[cartersocha]

Thanks for taking care of this Josh!