Extract internal Kubernetes API helpers into separate module

What does this MR do and why?

Follow up from !130141 (comment 1541377006).

The helpers block in this file has grown a lot recently, so to keep the overall file size manageable we can split this block out into its own file. No functional changes.

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Related to #409028 (closed)