[release-1.17] Add the ability to auth via certs without storing them in etcd secret

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This is an automated cherry-pick of #5200

/assign enxebre

Allows Service Principal with Certificate authentication to work with a path to the certificate.

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[nojnhuh]

I'm somewhat hesitant to backport any change to the API, even if we're confident it's backward-compatible.
/hold

[nojnhuh]

This should land in the CAPZ 1.18 release soon, in case just having this in a release prompted the cherry-pick. I'm still not convinced we should be backporting this, but if that's important please reopen this or create a new PR with #5277 included.

/close

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@nojnhuh: Closed this PR.

In response to this:

This should land in the CAPZ 1.18 release soon, in case just having this in a release prompted the cherry-pick. I'm still not convinced we should be backporting this, but if that's important please reopen this or create a new PR with #5277 included.

/close

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