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Add external metric type to HPA API
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Add external metric type to HPA API proposed in xref https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/1801
**Release note**:
```release-note
Allows HorizontalPodAutoscaler to use global metrics not associated with any Kubernetes object (for example metrics from a hoster service running outside of Kubernetes cluster).
```