Validate elasticache user password is between 16-128

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Description

Add validation for password for the aws_elasticache_user resource. The below configuration will get through deployment and fail with an AWS validation error. This is especially problematic for long-running Terraform modules as the input is not validated up front.

Without this validation the following error may occur:

│ Error: error creating ElastiCache User: InvalidParameterValue: Passwords length must be between 16-128 characters.
│       status code: 400, request id: <ID>
│ 
│   with module.test.aws_elasticache_user.this,
│   on ../elasticache.tf line 56, in resource "aws_elasticache_user" "this":
│   56: resource "aws_elasticache_user" "this" {

New or Affected Resource(s)

N/A

Potential Terraform Configuration

# Copy-paste your Terraform configurations here - for large Terraform configs,
# please use a service like Dropbox and share a link to the ZIP file. For
# security, you can also encrypt the files using our GPG public key.

resource "aws_elasticache_user" "this" {
  user_id       = var.redis_user
  user_name     = var.redis_user
  access_string = "on ~app::* -@all +@read +@hash +@bitmap +@geo -setbit -bitfield -hset -hsetnx -hmset -hincrby -hincrbyfloat -hdel -bitop -geoadd -georadius -georadiusbymember"
  engine        = "REDIS"
  passwords     = ["small"]

  # there will likely be a separate process that handles updates here, so we do not want the changes in this module to
  # overwrite those changes.  we simply want to ensure that all of the possible values exist
  lifecycle {
    ignore_changes = [passwords]
  }
}

References

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This functionality has been released in v4.11.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

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