Setting up open telemetry for golang on google cloud platform

package main

import (
    "cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata"
    "context"
    "fmt"
    texporter "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/exporter/trace"
    "github.com/amammay/propagationgcp" // ablility to parse X-Cloud-Trace-Context
    "go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagation"
    sdktrace "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace"

    "log"
    "net/http"
    "os"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    if err := run(); err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "run(): %v", err)
        os.Exit(1)
    }
}

func run() error {
    projectID := ""
    onGCE := metadata.OnGCE()
    if onGCE {
        // infer our project id from the metadata server
        id, err := metadata.ProjectID()
        if err != nil {
            return fmt.Errorf("metadata.ProjectID(): %v", err)
        }
        projectID = id
    }
    // init open telem, while allowing us to defer the teardown and flushing of our exporter
    tracerShutdown, err := initTracer(context.Background(), projectID, onGCE)
    if err != nil {
        return fmt.Errorf("initTracer(): %v", err)
    }
    defer tracerShutdown()

    mux := http.NewServeMux()
    mux.HandleFunc("/", func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {
        ctx := request.Context()
        //create our custom span of work
        ctx, span := trace.SpanFromContext(ctx).Tracer().Start(ctx, "hello-world")
        defer span.End()
        writer.Write([]byte("hello world"))
    })

    // add http middleware for tracing
    otelWrapper := otelhttp.NewHandler(mux, "requesthandler")

    port := os.Getenv("PORT")
    if port == "" {
        port = "8080"
    }
    httpServer := http.Server{
        Addr:         ":" + port,
        Handler:      otelWrapper,
        ReadTimeout:  45 * time.Second,
        WriteTimeout: 45 * time.Second,
    }
    log.Printf("starting server on %q", httpServer.Addr)
    return httpServer.ListenAndServe()
}

func initTracer(ctx context.Context, projectID string, onGCE bool) (func(), error) {
    var tpos []sdktrace.TracerProviderOption
    // if our code is running on GCP (cloud run/functions/app engine/gke) then we will export directly to cloud tracing
    if onGCE {
        exporter, err := texporter.NewExporter(texporter.WithProjectID(projectID))
        if err != nil {
            return nil, fmt.Errorf("texporter.NewExporter(): %v", err)
        }
        tpos = append(tpos, sdktrace.WithBatcher(exporter))
    } else {
        exporter, err := stdout.NewExporter(stdout.WithPrettyPrint())
        if err != nil {
            return nil, fmt.Errorf("stdout.NewExporter(): %v", err)
        }
        tpos = append(tpos, sdktrace.WithBatcher(exporter))
    }

    tp := sdktrace.NewTracerProvider(tpos...)

    otel.SetTracerProvider(tp)

    propagator := propagation.NewCompositeTextMapPropagator(
        propagation.TraceContext{},
        propagation.Baggage{},
        propagationgcp.HTTPFormat{}, //adding this propagator allows for extracting X-Cloud-Trace-Context
    )
    otel.SetTextMapPropagator(propagator)

    return func() {
        err := tp.ForceFlush(ctx)
        if err != nil {
            log.Printf("tracerProvider.ForceFlush(): %v", err)
        }
    }, nil
}