Provide a credential type for the Kubernetes configuration file kubeconfig

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Feature type

New Feature

Feature Summary

If you have client-certificate-data and client-key-data in your kubeconfig file, you can't use the OpenShift or Kubernetes API Bearer Token credential type because that requires a token, and even if you do have a token, you shouldn't have to parse it out of the file.

It would be nice to have a built-in credential type called "Kubernetes configuration (kubeconfig)" or similar that just sticks the entire file into the K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable. The Kubernetes modules (e.g. kubernetes.core.k8s_info) can deal with the entire file or environment variable, without users having to split apart fields within the file (as required by the OpenShift or Kubernetes API Bearer Token credential type).

The only workaround I can think of right now is to create a custom credential type.

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Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Credentials.
2. Add a new one.
3. Look for a credential type that supports uploading of a kubeconfig file.

Current results

Such a credential type is not available, and the only other Kubernetes one doesn't support this (and it wouldn't make sense anyway).

Sugested feature result

It would be nice to have a built-in credential type called "Kubernetes configuration (kubeconfig)" or similar that just sticks the entire file into the K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable. The Kubernetes modules (e.g. kubernetes.core.k8s_info) can deal with the entire file or environment variable, without users having to split apart fields within the file (as required by the OpenShift or Kubernetes API Bearer Token credential type).

Additional information

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