The jenkins-sync-plugin [1] supports creating 3 types of Jenkins credentials from OpenShift secrets, UsernamePassword, SSH, and Secret File. If we wished to use the plugin as is, we would need to use one of these credentials types in Jenkins, most likely secret file.

[1] https://github.com/openshift/jenkins-sync-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/io/fabric8/jenkins/openshiftsync/CredentialsUtils.java#L225