[v18] Improve tsh kubectl traces#63762
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The tracing support for tsh kubectl was in a semi-working, but mostly not functional state. The spans were disjoint instead of all being associated with a singular SpanContext partly because we didn't pass the SpanContext from parent to child process and partly due to kubectl limitations. This addresess those limitations by passing the SpanContext as an environment variable from the parent tsh process to the child. This gets all Teleport originated spans unified in the same Span, however, the kubectl originated spans - by way of us setting a custom http.RoundTripper were not grouped because kubectl uses a context.TODO for all requests. To work around this the custom http.RoundTripper was updated to take a parent context and inject it into the http.Request before it is passed along to the tracing machinery.
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Backport #63652 to branch/v18
changelog: Improved tracing support via
tsh --trace kubectl.