Requiring the Opentelemetry Operator is a heavy requirement

[data-dude]

The Opentelemetry Operator has cluster role that has patch and delete action to everything in your cluster. This seems like such a heavy requirement for someone that just wants to send traces to Elastic and then view those traces in Elastic. Why the requirement that users install such an invasive and heavy tool?

[yurishkuro]

Jaeger does not require you to run Operator.

[data-dude]

Yea the docs aren't clear on how to do that though. I just deployed in a TEST environment the operator and then an instance of jaeger v2 and then output to yaml the configmap, services and deployment and then just run the configmap, services and deployment in production.
Unfortunately I'm running it on a separate network that doesn't allow transfering data out so I can't share my files.