Move secrets to an official plugin

[DanSheps]

Environment

• Python version: 3.7
• NetBox version: 2.9.7

Proposed Functionality

Move the secrets app to a dedicated official plugin

Use Case

There have been a few requests to improve the secrets functionality or to allow integration into a third party secret vault (HashiCorp, etc). Additionally, we have a naming collision with the "secrets" python standard library (#4553). Moving the secrets app into a dedicated plugin would allow us to:

• Rename the plugin app to resolve the naming collision with the python standard library
• Increase the ease of updating and modifying the secrets plugin
• Provide a plugin to showcase the capabilities of the NetBox plugins framework
• Provide a plugin to test against for issues with the plugins framework
• Allow plugin developers to integrate their own secret plugins

Database Changes

Table changes to accommodate moving the app to a official plugin

External Dependencies

None

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[jeremystretch]

Provide a plugin to test against for issues with the plugins framework

Just want to note that we have this already: There's a dummy_plugin plugin buried within the extras app that's enabled and configured solely for testing. Tests intended to run against a production plugin would probably be too difficult to maintain.

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[jeremystretch]

This is something we can keep in mind for the future, but for the time being it's not something worth the necessary commitment of time and effort.