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Add section on how to build an otelcol dist #1234

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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ core distribution of the Collector. Typically, these contributions are vendor
specific receivers/exporters and/or components that are only
useful to a relatively small number of users.

## Creating your own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

A guide on how to create your own distribution is available in this blog post:
["Building your own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution"](https://medium.com/p/42337e994b63)
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I may be wrong but isn't medium content sometimes locked behind a paywall now? Not sure if a freely available project both as in beer and speech should rely on extended documentation that might not be accessible to everyone.

Nothing against medium or content they host. Just not sure if OpenTelemetry as a product should direct users to content/documentation/guides that they might not be able to read.

Great article BTW @jpkrohling

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Oh, I see this is the official OpenTelemetry blog on medium. I suppose this decision has already been taken then by the maintainers and we are fine with publishin there? Please disregard if that's the case.

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sometimes locked behind a paywall now

Each author/publication can choose to make money on Medium and have a paywall in front of individual posts, or to allow all users to have free access to the content, without any paywalls. I always publish articles without opting-in for the paywall, and I believe the OpenTelemetry publication also doesn't.


If you are building your own distribution, the [OpenTelemetry Collector Builder](https://github.com/observatorium/opentelemetry-collector-builder)
might be a good starting point.

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## Questions
Reach the Collector community on
[gitter](https://gitter.im/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-service) if you have
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