Chris Sam

@seemk For now, the nginx span creation should be fine. But yes, would be cool to create and modify it inside lua blocks to get a more deeper insight.

**Update** The `otel_ngx_module-ubuntu-18.04-stable.so` module works fine with Ubuntu 20.04, running nginx `1.18.0` ``` $ nginx -V nginx version: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) built with OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 TLS SNI support...

> **Update** > > The `otel_ngx_module-ubuntu-18.04-stable.so` module works fine with Ubuntu 20.04, running nginx `1.18.0` > > ``` > $ nginx -V > nginx version: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) > built with...

@seemk I was able to successfully make it run in `ubuntu 20.04` (nginx:1.18.0) using `otel_ngx_module-ubuntu-20.04-stable.so`. I'm basically trying to make this work for openresty `nginx:1.19.3`. I'll let you know how...

@seemk I was trying from apt and as you said it doesn't have `--with-compat`. I'm yet to try in OpenResty Docker or by building it from source. I should probably...