feat grpc: ability to provide SSL certificate for GRPC client #1106
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Currently, there is the only option to provide SSL certificate for GRPC client: from file.
It makes impossible to use a certificate received from an external secret data provider without saving it to disk, while saving private key to disk could potentially lead to a security issue.
It is suggested to declare an abstract component
ugrpc::client::ExternalCredentialsProvider, which is used byugrpc::client::ClientFactoryComponent. Ifugrpc::client::ExternalCredentialsProviderreturns a certificate, then SSL auth is enabled and certificate file path specified for factory config is ignored.A minimal example: