🚀 Feature: Allow to add credentials ( username/password) authentication in Kubernetes plugin

[ajaykanse]

🔖 Feature description

Currently Kubernetes plugin allow ServiceAccountToken as one of the way to authenticate with clusters. Many of the organization doesn't allow to use service account for authentication due to Audit and security restrictions and tracking. Helm or even kubectl allows user authentication to clusters. Hence the Kubernetes plugin should allow user authentication as well.

🎤 Context

Its known that Service account tokens are long lived however many organization doesn't allow it and expects to have either Service ids ( such AD ids ) or real ids to be used for login to clusters. Providing the ability to use uername/passwrod for authetication can extract token for the user on the fly using API and use that as token for authentication.

✌️ Possible Implementation

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🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

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Are you willing to submit PR?

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[Jenson3210]

I think not all k8s providers/implementations support the same username/password logins and that's what makes it harder to develop in a generic way.
I believe that's why the framework authors have provided the docs to create your own authStrategy
It was not really possible to start your app with a custom one present due to config validation but that should now be fixed in the coming release due to my PR.

I did not validate that this is 100% working as I am waiting for the next release, but I was able to connect to our k8s implementation using custom auth strategy before.