Provider Ephemeral Resources
hashicorp/agent-skills/plugins/terraform/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources
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Implement Terraform provider ephemeral resources with the Plugin Framework: the Open/Renew/Close lifecycle, ephemeral schema design, registration via EphemeralResources, renewal for expiring credentials, and how ephemeral values flow into write-only attributes and provider configuration. Use when adding an ephemeral resource, exposing secrets/tokens/certificates that must never persist in state or plan, deciding between an ephemeral resource and a data source, or wiring short-lived credentials f
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Skill details
Versionv1.0.0
AuthorHashiCorp
Categorysecurity
Skill IDhashicorp/agent-skills/plugins/terraform/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources
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