What happened (please include outputs or screenshots):
The kubectl CLI uses a StrategicMergePatch type in the underlying API request for apply.

The Python client should be able to do the same by letting us pass a Content-Type of 'application/strategic-merge-patch+json' into the headers dict, but this odd little piece of generated code precludes us from doing so

I would like to leverage the Python client as much as possible without resorting to kubectl. Is there a way to get around this for the time being?

Thanks in advance!

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (kubectl version):

• OS (e.g., MacOS 10.13.6):
  10.15.1

• Python version (python --version)
  3.8.0

• Python client version (pip list | grep kubernetes)
  10.0.1