Chris Smith

@xmenxk SGTM. Do you want to create a PR for this?

@vanja-p Yes, and the change from #11162 is still present in the most recently released version: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/blob/auth/v0.16.3/auth/grpctransport/directpath.go#L119 Have you noticed anything wrong?

Reassigning to @cpriti-os for the docs issues listed above: > The docs imply that DirectPath only works when using the default (VM metadata provided) service account, but since https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/pull/11878, WithCredentialsFile...

@surik Thank you for opening this feature request. Can you expand it to also somehow include [go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc.Option](https://pkg.go.dev/go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc#Option)?

@surik Thank you! I will try to move this forward.

@surik We can move forward with trying to find a solution for this. An important constraint will be to avoid exporting the dependency on any `go.opentelemetry.io` packages from the `google.golang.org/api/option`...