Add base64 flag to gp env

[loujaybee]

Extend gp env to natively support base64 uploads, for multi-line files. Basically, this blog post, but built-in to Gitpod.

The use-case for this is for SSH key uploads, which should also be improved with:

• Epic: Upload users SSH keys to Gitpod #9932
• One SSH key for the account that gets shared with each workspace on account #6794

Related:

• Support multiline environment variables #2058

However there might be more scenarios / edge cases where multi-line support would be generally useful.

Relates to:

• https://github.com/gitpod-io/website/issues/2277

[jacobparis]

If the core of this feature request is "add some way to serialize data before storing with gp env", then I think Base64 is the best way to encode but is there any other method we should consider? Binary? Gzip?

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