The kafka source and sink incorrectly document support for non-PEM certificates

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Problem

The doc for tls.crt_file for Kafka components states:

The certificate must be in DER, PEM (X.509), or PKCS#12 format. Additionally, the certificate can be provided as an inline string in PEM format.

However, librdkafka actually only supports PEM format: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md. Passing a non-PEM certificate gives you an error like:

Could not create Kafka consumer: Client creation error: ssl.certificate.location failed: error:0A080009:SSL routines::PEM lib

Configuration

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Version

vector v0.43.1

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