Addresses #388 (closed), and depends on !851 (merged).
Feb 11 edit: First attempt at adding the code to publish to a kafka topic is done, needs testing. Alerts currently set to publish to StandinKafkaTopic
Aug 10 edit: Ready to be reviewed. Need new release of hop-client for a PR needed for GCN support (merged) and need to update URL of avro schema files once userguide!124 (merged) is merged.
Sep 21 edit: Peeled a lot of these changes off into other MRs, specifically !914 (merged), !915 (merged), and !917 (merged). This MR now primarily deals with the work needed to plug the kafka alerts into the orchestrator.
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