AddMetadataAsTags converts name and value into tags based on the metadata as tags configuration and patterns.

ComputeTagsHash returns a hash of the supplied tags.

ConcatenateTags is a fast way to concatenate multiple tag arrays in a single one.

InitMetadataAsTags prepares labels and annotations as tags - It lower-case all the labels in metadataAsTags - It compiles all the patterns and stores them in a map of glob.Glob objects.

NewTagList creates a new object ready to use.

StringInRuneset tests whether all runes of a string are in a given subset returns false if any rune in the string is not found in the subset.

TagList allows collector to incremental build a tag list then export it easily to []string format.