1. static credentials replaced with defaults.DefaultChainCredentials.
This change ensures that credentials are sourced form all possible
providers available with the aws sdk, in the following order:
env variables, shared awsconfig file in user folder, ec2 instance role.
2. Added a few labels: AvailabilityZone, PublicDns, VpcId (if
available), SubnetId (if in Vpc)
The prefixed target provider changed a pointerized target group that was
reused in the wrapped target provider, causing an ever-increasing chain
of source prefixes in target groups from the Consul target provider.
We now make this bug generally impossible by switching the target group
channel from pointer to value type and thus ensuring that target groups
are copied before being passed on to other parts of the system.
I tried to not let the depointerization leak too far outside of the
channel handling (both upstream and downstream) because I tried that
initially and caused some nasty bugs, which I want to minimize.
Fixes https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/1083
Federico Baldo
Julius Volz
Matt Jibson