The new plugin APIs are ready to use, are being used, and here's a video of them in action.
The full API docs can be found at pkg.go.dev/github.com/Jeffail/benthos/v3/public, and there's an example repository demonstrating a few different component plugin types at github.com/benthosdev/benthos-plugin-example.
I need help, attention and affirmation, and therefore it's time for a development update. Around five months ago I posted a roadmap for Benthos v4 that included some utterly unattainable goals that only a super human could achieve.
Now that most of those features are ready to test, namely a new plugins API and config templating, I'm looking for people to try them out and give feedback. Please read on if that sounds like fun to you, or also if it doesn't sound fun but you intend to do it anyway.
I'm going to walk you through writing a Benthos plugin from scratch in Go.
