In a kubernetes_deployment_v1 with a service account, setting service_account_name = "" or none does not remove the existing service account

[marcosdiez]

Terraform Version, Provider Version and Kubernetes Version

Terraform v1.5.5
on darwin_arm64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/kubernetes v2.26.0

Affected Resource(s)

• kubernetes_deployment_v1

How to reproduce

1. create or import a kubernetes_deployment_v1 with a service account (service_account_name = "something" )
2. change service_account_name to "" or null
3. terraform plan
4. you will see that there are not changes

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