[cmd/configschema] use contrib components, simplify grepmod code #12620
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The configschema module makes available an API to get metadata about component configs. It also provides a command,
docsgen
, to generate markdown files for each component, describing its configuration fields, types, and default values.This functionality got moved from core a few months back, but there was some additional work remaining. This change finishes that work, making configschema compatible with contrib.
This change also adds a makefile target, which runs
docsgen all
, writing over 140 markdown files to their corresponding component directories. For reference, one example markdown file is included in this PR (for the Redis receiver).We will likely want to get a markdown generation job running as well, but that will be handled as a separate effort.
Addresses #12639