Wildcards are now supported in component names

Wildcards allow for dynamic Vector topologies

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PR 6170 introduced wildcards when referencing component names in the inputs option. This allows you to build dynamic topologies. This feature comes with one limitation: the wildcard must be at the end of the string.

[sources.app1_logs]
type = "file"
includes = ["/var/log/app1.log"]

[sources.app2_logs]
type = "file"
includes = ["/var/log/app.log"]

[sources.system_logs]
type = "file"
includes = ["/var/log/system.log"]

[sinks.app_logs]
type = "datadog_logs"
inputs = ["app*"]

[sinks.archive]
type = "aws_s3"
inputs = ["app*", "system_logs"]