1. Proposed title of this feature request

Azure Workload Identity support for CSI-File in 4.14 and 4.15

1. What is the nature and description of the request?

Please backport either the 1.29.3 feature for Azure Workload Idenity or rebase our Azure File CSI driver in 4.14 and 4.15 to at least 1.29.3 which includes the desired feature.

1. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

The customer uses Azure File CSI driver and without this they cannot make use of the Azure Workload Identity work which was one of the banner features of OCP 4.14. This feature is currently available in 4.16, however it will take the customer 3-6 months to validate 4.16 and start its rollout putting their plans to complete a large migration to Azure by end of 2024 at risk.

1. List any affected packages or components.
   azure-file-csi-driver in 4.14 and 4.15
   In 4.14, azure-file-csi-driver is version 1.28.1
   In 4.15, azure-file-csi-driver is version 1.29.2

Additionally, just looking at releases there was a patch in 1.30.1 that may be relevant. I don't know. PTAL https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azurefile-csi-driver/pull/1784