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Draft: Added doc on how to use OIDC without the AWS cli

Janario Oliveira requested to merge janario/gitlab:feature/oidc-env-var-doc into master

What does this MR do and why?

After evaluating to use OIDC in our scenarios we realized that we would require to install the AWS cli in cases where it was not required before.

e.g.

  • pure javascript
  • pure golang
  • ...

With a few investigations turns out that the SDKs rely on these environment variables to handle the assumed process and that would be enough to them. So I was looking to share some documentation to help the other on such a solution and simplify it a bit since it doesn't require the awscli and it won't need to handle session timeout.

The description in the doc might not be the best, so I'm super open for suggestions ;-)

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