Promote External Secret Stores to Beta

[turkenh]

What problem are you facing?

We released initial support for External Secret Stores in the v1.7.0 milestone. As a follow-up, we have made them pluggable to enable out-of-tree development and extension with v1.12.0 and released the first out-of-tree external secret store plugin under https://github.com/crossplane-contrib/ess-plugin-vault.

We want to continue to invest in this feature to evolve it to a Beta level of maturity.

How could Crossplane help solve your problem?

This issue will serve as a tracking epic of the known issues we want to address before moving this feature to Beta.

### ESS Beta checklist
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/2985
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/4018
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/2998
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/2774
- [ ] At least 1 more ESS plugin has been developed and published in the ecosystem.
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/4171
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/4185
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/3361
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/4277
- [ ] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/4725

[turkenh]

Removing deprecated Vault API from ESS API https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane-runtime/pull/513

[mmassenzio]

We've been using the publishConnectionDetailsTo feature to our corp Vault instance for several months now and it has proved pretty solid and really reliable, so my vote goes for promoting it :100:

[EricDotz]

Hi, do know about a new version of the ess-plugin-vault (https://github.com/crossplane-contrib/ess-plugin-vault) with Kubernetes AuthMethod?

I saw this functionality in the code and would like to use it.

The code is already on the main branch.

[ezgidemirel]

Hi @EricDotz, just released ess-plugin-vault:0.2.0.

[EricDotz]

Thank you @ezgidemirel

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