Instance AuthorizedKeys from kubernetes secret

[siredmar]

Referring to the Instances API it would be nice to set Authorized Keys from a secret.

Currently AuthorizedKeys is a *[]string. A new field AuthorizedKeysRef containing a secret reference (namespace, name and key) would be great.

https://github.com/linode/provider-linode/blob/7bb2a26e071a2a85bfcdf67ef29aa91695eb7fb4/apis/instance/v1alpha1/zz_instance_types.go#L537C10-L537C10

[cmcgalliard]

Hey there,
The way that our provider is maintained is as a subset of our Terraform provider, and this object in Terraform expects a map of strings: https://github.com/linode/terraform-provider-linode/blob/main/linode/instance/schema_resource.go#L433

Crossplane 1.x did not have a solid story around patching resources from secrets, but the good news is Crossplane 2.x seems to have done some work, this might help:
https://docs.crossplane.io/latest/guides/function-patch-and-transform/