enhancement-envs-from-configmap.yaml

# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
change_type: enhancement

# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. collector, target allocator, auto-instrumentation, opamp, github action)
component: auto-instrumentation

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note: Add support for detecting and reading environment variables from POD's ConfigMap resources.

# One or more tracking issues related to the change
issues: [1393, 1814]

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subtext: |
  Now the auto-instrumentation will see the environment variables defined via POD's `env.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef` and
  `envFrom.configMapRef` fields, so the auto-instrumentation will be able to prevent overriding them, or it will be able
  to extend the existing definition.