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provider-ephemeral-resources
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 from one provider into another.
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# Terraform Provider Ephemeral Resources
Ephemeral resources (Terraform 1.10+) produce values that are **never
persisted to state or plan**. They exist for exactly one job: handing
secrets — tokens, generated passwords, short-lived certificates, decrypted
values — to the parts of a configuration that need them, without writing
them to disk. Any data source that returns a sensitive value is a candidate
to be (or to also exist as) an ephemeral resource.
Official docs: [Ephemeral Resources](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/plugin/framework/ephemeral-resources).
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