At this point we have Istio installed in the cluster and the Bookinfo app deployed and running. The Envoy proxy sidecars are being added to each of the application pods via the label that was added to the namespace. Now we need to configure distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and export the tracing data to Cloud Observability. To do this we will deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector in the cluster and then configure Istio to generate tracing data and sent it to the collector.
next: Deploy an OpenTelemetry Collector