Hitting annotation hard limit when deploying a Configmap/Secret (Too long)

Issue

When users and administrators are deploying a Configmap/Secret, they may end up hitting the following error:

Error occurred when Deploy secret/ in : (500: error creating resource-name in :
 Secret "" is invalid: metadata.annotations: 
Too long: must have at most 262144 bytes: metadata.annotations:
 Too long: must have at most 262144 bytes)

Cause

This error occurs during the kubectl apply phase for the ConfigMap/Secrets resources deployment.  Spinnaker uses kubectl apply to perform deployments.  One of the downsides of using kubectl apply is that it stores the entire spec as an annotation in the object, which is used to understand how to handle defaulted vs. deleted fields.  What’s happening is that the data fields in the ConfigMap/Secrets are exceeding 262144 characters max limit enforced by the Kubernetes API server.  As a result, Spinnaker cannot fit in the last-applied-configuration kubectl annotation.