[SEBA-232]

Publish XOS internal events on kafka as well as redis

Switch to confluent_kafka, create XOSKafkaProducer wrapper lib

Remove nonfunctional test for connection failure

Change-Id: I4d3057fcc0b5b56022ef3f853dbe0323ef071af7
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 7c7e096..eca07e4 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.1.1-dev
+2.1.2