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Draft: support for deploying behind a proxy

What does this MR do?

This MR includes work I did for a client to make GET work behind a mandatory web proxy. This worked well at least in that customer's case, but it needs a more systematic review and testing. The client was only using certain features of GitLab so it may not correctly configure features that weren't in use, for example.

Two Ansible variables are added - proxy_host and no_proxy. Setting proxy_host should cause the right environment variables to be set in all the right places. There are some assumptions baked into this right now that might not be universal, for example that the proxy should be used to reach the K8s control plane (often true in AWS but probably rarely true on-prem).

I have the ability so spin up a test environment with a mandatory proxy fairly easily but - to be totally honest - I don't know that I'll have the time to do more work on this right now. That said this is a common situation for some PS customers and I would definitely like to help however I can.

Related issues

#406

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Edited by J. B. Crawford

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