Remove dependency on k8s.io/kubernetes

[rohitagg2020]

Describe the problem/challenge you have
k8s.io/kubernetes is not suppose to be used as library.

Because of this, go list command fails unless some packages are added in the replace section. If we add the packages in replace section, we have to take care of upgrading them as k8s.io/apiserver upgrades. This makes the maintainance hard.

Describe the solution you'd like
Ideal solution would be to remove the dependency on k8s.io/kubernetes and have some alternative to the functionality it provides.

Anything else you would like to add:
This library is being used here

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