🌱 Cultivating Unique service.instance.id on NGINX Ingress with OpenTelemetry

Jul 31, 2025 · 2 min read · A task to set a unique service.instance.id on NGINX Ingress Controller using the OpenTelemetry should be simple, right? But as it turned out, the ingress controller doesn't expose all of NGINX’s OTel knobs out of the box, so I had to roll my own twea...