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+'@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-backend': patch
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+Add configuration option to the kubernetes object types. Config option is under `kubernetes.resources`. Defaults to ['pods', 'services', 'configmaps', 'deployments', 'replicasets', 'horizontalpodautoscalers', 'ingresses']