Fully Managed Connector Updates for Easier Migrations

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This post details several enhancements to Confluent's fully managed connectors, focusing on improving the migration experience from self-managed to fully managed connectors and increasing flexibility. Key contributions include: exposing fully managed connector logs to non-admin roles (ResourceOwner, ConnectManager) for independent management and troubleshooting; introducing plugin versioning for custom connectors via API, CLI, and Terraform to enable seamless upgrades without losing offsets; expanding Single Message Transform (SMT) support with new out-of-the-box SMTs (DropHeaders, InsertHeader, HeaderFrom, ValueToKey, HeaderToValue, Flatten, Filter) and enabling custom SMTs with fully-managed connectors; and allowing custom naming for Dead Letter Queue (DLQ), success, and error topics, aligning fully managed connector functionality with self-managed offerings. Additionally, it lists specific enhancements across various connector categories, including database, SaaS, messaging, file storage, observability, and analytics connectors.