password.html.md

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random	Random: random_password	docs-random-resource-password	Produces a random string of a length using alphanumeric characters and optionally special characters. The result will not be displayed to console.

random_password

~> Note: Requires random provider version >= 2.2.0

Identical to random_string with the exception that the result is treated as sensitive and, thus, not displayed in console output.

~> Note: All attributes including the generated password will be stored in the raw state as plain-text. Read more about sensitive data in state.

This resource does use a cryptographic random number generator.

Example Usage

resource "random_password" "password" {
  length = 16
  special = true
  override_special = "!#$%&*()-_=+[]{}<>:?"
}

resource "aws_db_instance" "example" {
  instance_class = "db.t3.micro"
  allocated_storage = 64
  engine = "mysql"
  username = "someone"
  password = random_password.password.result
}

Import

Random Password can be imported by specifying the value of the string:

terraform import random_password.password securepassword