Nightly Builds

[sethAmazon]

**Is your feature request related to a problem?
No nightly builds

Describe the solution you'd like
Add a nightly build

Describe alternatives you've considered
Not adding a nightly build and forcing users to build them selfs

Additional context
Nightly Build Unit Tests For ADOT

Why?

• We want to prove on nightly basis unit tests are passing
• Standard to run nightly builds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_build
  • The industry is moving in a direction of ci / unit test against every merge of code
    • We must make the nightly build easily changeable to a ci build
• Have a nightly docker container release

What?

• Unit test adot

  • make test

• Unit test common aws components from the contrib

  • go test {dep} -v
  • ex. go test github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/awsemfexporter (http://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/exporter/awsemfexporter) -v
  • List of common contrib components to test
    • Receivers
      • prometheusreceiver
      • awsecscontainermetricsreceiver
      • awsxrayreceiver
      • statsdreceiver
      • awscontainerinsightreceiver
    • Exporters
      • awsxrayexporter
      • awsemfexporter
      • awsprometheusremotewriteexporter
    • Extensions
      • ecsobserver

• Add nightly docker container to ecr

How?

• Github actions

• Schedule cron for midnight

  • Github uses a non standard cron expression
    • • cron: *'0 0 * * ' # run at mid night

• Add a new public ecr repo that contains adot nightly builds

• Iterative steps for adding tests

Steps

1. Unit test adot
2. Add testing of common aws contrib components
   2.5. Maintain adding common aws contrib components as more are added
3. Add a step to upload a docker container to ecr