Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/dependabot/gradle/examples/org.apache.kafka-kafka-clients-4.1.0' into combined-pr-branch

Author: eddumelendez

examples/kafka-cluster/build.gradle

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies {
     testCompileOnly "org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.38"
     testAnnotationProcessor "org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.38"
     testImplementation 'org.testcontainers:testcontainers-kafka'
-    testImplementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.0.0'
+    testImplementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:4.1.0'
     testImplementation 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.27.4'
     testImplementation 'com.google.guava:guava:23.0'
     testImplementation 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.3.15'