Feature Request: Provide Redpanda Connect as an importable Go Mudule

[slouma2000]

Hello,
First, thank you for the amazing work on Redpanda and Redpanda Connect!

I’m currently building a custom Go CLI application where I want to embed Redpanda Connect directly, instead of shelling out to rpk connect or running it via Docker.
Unfortunately, while the github.com/redpanda-data/connect folder exists, it is not available as a standalone Go module, making direct integration impossible.

Embedding Connect directly would allow us to control pipelines

Thank you for considering this request.

[mihaitodor]

Hey @slouma2000 please review https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-connect-plugin-example and let us know if you need any extra help navigating the API.

PS: Moving this to a discussion as per #2026.