Ignore the doesn't match any components error

[wanjunlei]

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Use Cases

Sometimes, I want to pre-create a sink that matches multiple inputs with wildcard expressions, and then dynamically create input as needed. For example, in a k8s cluster, pre-create an elasticsearch sink with input logs-*, then I will create a kubernetes_logs source to collect logs of pod with specific labels, so I can provide an API to create inputs dynamically.

Attempted Solutions

Provide a parameter to ignore the doesn't match any components error, such as --ignore-unmatched-component

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[jszwedko]

Historically we've shied away from having invalid configs to avoid unexpected runtime behavior but I can see the use-case here with wildcards.