Mitigate warnings

Two warnings that pop up occasionally:

1. %4|<timestamp>|CONFWARN|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:app]: Configuration property group.id is a consumer property and will be ignored by this producer instance
2. InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host <URL>. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.26.x/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings

Both these have been addressed here. We ignore any SSL warnings if we explicitly turn off certificate verification.