**Description:**
Based on user reports on
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/issues/891 and the discussion
on #8343, we can deprecate the memory ballast extension in favor of
using `GOMEMLIMIT`. This PR:
- Deprecates the memory ballast extension in the README
- Removes references to the memory ballast extension on docs
- Updates k8s example to use `GOMEMLIMIT` with the same approach as in
the Helm chart (80% of memory limit)
- Deprecates the memory ballast extension Go module
Once this PR is accepted,
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-helm-charts/issues/891 can move ahead with
enabling `useGOMEMLIMIT` by default on the Helm chart.
Other issues will be opened for opentelemetry.io, the Opentelemetry
Operator and other parts of the OpenTelemetry project to remove
references to this extension once the PR is merged.
No explicit timeline is given for removal of the extension.
**Link to tracking Issue:** Updates #8343
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Co-authored-by: Bogdan Drutu <bogdandrutu@gmail.com>
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