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add note informing users of env var updates #10819

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/tasks/extend-kubectl/kubectl-plugins.md
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Expand Up @@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ For example, a plugin that wishes to be invoked whenever the command `kubectl fo

#### Flags and argument handling

{{< note >}}
**Note:** Unlike previous versions of `kubectl`, the plugin mechanism will _not_ create any custom, plugin-specific values or environment variables to a plugin process.
This means that environment variables such as `KUBECTL_PLUGINS_CURRENT_NAMESPACE` are no longer provided to a plugin. Plugins must parse all of the arguments passed to them by a user,
and handle flag validation as part of their own implementation. For plugins written in Go, a set of utilities has been provided under [k8s.io/cli-runtime](https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime) to assist with this.
{{< /note >}}

Taking our `kubectl-foo-bar-baz` plugin from the above scenario, we further explore additional cases where users invoke our plugin while providing additional flags and arguments.
For example, in a situation where a user invokes the command `kubectl foo bar baz arg1 --flag=value arg2`, the plugin mechanism will first try to find the plugin with the longest possible name, which in this case
would be `kubectk-foo-bar-baz-arg1`. Upon not finding that plugin, it then treats the last dash-separated value as an argument (`arg1` in this case), and attempts to find the next longest possible name, `kubectl-foo-bar-baz`.
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