[Issue] Support secretOrRandomPassword in terraform deployments

[adrianhall]

The current (1.8.1) version of azd with the terraform provider does not provide a similar capability as secretOrRandomPassword.

Can you please provide some guidance on how we can get the similar functionality within Terraform.

[ellismg]

Instead of adding native support for this to azd, I would consider trying to use the random_string resource in Terraform.

This will allow a random value to be created and the value will be stored in the state file and re-used across deployments. If you need this stored in KeyVault as well, as secretOrRandomPassword would do, you can use terraform to create that resource.

We built secretOrRandomPassword to address the fact that bicep has nothing like the random_string resource, so we needed something that behaved like this resource and stored the state somewhere.

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