external data provider for Kubernetes API

[sozercan]

Describe the solution you'd like create an external data provider that can talk to kubernetes api server

this should address similar scenarios as syncing to opa cache (for example, uniqueness) but queries k8s api directly instead of caching resources

Anything else you would like to add: [Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]

Environment:

• Gatekeeper version:
• Kubernetes version: (use kubectl version):

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[nilekhc]

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[pikehuang]

hello sozercan, what's the progress of this issue ? is it already implemented in gatekeeper? because the opa cache maybe increased too much when k8s cluster has 40+ nodes and 1400+ pods, so the better idea is making a request to api server instead of reading from cache.