Kafka output producer, send telegraf metrics to Kafka brokers

Closes #38

outputs/kafka/kafka_test.go

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+package kafka
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/influxdb/telegraf/testutil"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestConnectAndWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("Skipping integration test in short mode")
+	}
+
+	brokers := []string{testutil.GetLocalHost() + ":9092"}
+	k := &Kafka{
+		Brokers: brokers,
+		Topic:   "Test",
+	}
+
+	// Verify that we can connect to the Kafka broker
+	err := k.Connect()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Verify that we can successfully write data to the kafka broker
+	err = k.Write(testutil.MockBatchPoints())
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}