* Allow path parameters to have default values (e.g. `None`) and discard them instead of raising an error.
    * This allows declaring a parameter like `user_id: str = None` that can be taken from a query parameter, but the same *path operation* can be included in a router with a path `/users/{user_id}`, in which case will be taken from the path and will be required.

When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password information. The configmap is mounted as a file, and the secrets are made available as environment variables. The external controller itself runs as a pod/daemonset. For backward compatibility, we preload all the OS_* variables, and if anything...