Use the grpc.ClientConn to handle connections for the otlptracegrpc client

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- The `"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporter/otel/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc".Client` now uses the underlying gRPC `ClientConn` to handle name resolution, TCP connection establishment (with retries and backoff) and TLS handshakes, and handling errors on established connections by re-resolving the name and reconnecting. (#2329)
+
 ### Removed
 
 - Remove the metric Processor's ability to convert cumulative to delta aggregation temporality. (#2350)

example/otel-collector/main.go

@@ -53,13 +53,11 @@ func initProvider() func() {
 	// `localhost:30080` endpoint. Otherwise, replace `localhost` with the
 	// endpoint of your cluster. If you run the app inside k8s, then you can
 	// probably connect directly to the service through dns
+	conn, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, "localhost:30080", grpc.WithInsecure(), grpc.WithBlock())
+	handleErr(err, "failed to create gRPC connection to collector")
 
 	// Set up a trace exporter
-	traceExporter, err := otlptracegrpc.New(ctx,
-		otlptracegrpc.WithInsecure(),
-		otlptracegrpc.WithEndpoint("localhost:30080"),
-		otlptracegrpc.WithDialOption(grpc.WithBlock()),
-	)
+	traceExporter, err := otlptracegrpc.New(ctx, otlptracegrpc.WithGRPCConn(conn))
 	handleErr(err, "failed to create trace exporter")
 
 	// Register the trace exporter with a TracerProvider, using a batch

exporters/otlp/otlptrace/go.mod

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.2.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.2.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v0.11.0
-	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20200526211855-cb27e3aa2013
 	google.golang.org/grpc v1.42.0
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.27.1
 )