Add support for updating Key Vault Certificate content

[mkemmerz]

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Description

Currently changing the content of a Key Vault certificate re-creates the resource (documentation). This means it destroys the certifcate and creates it again with the new content. This can't be done if Purge Protection is enabled on the Key Vault, which is a best practice.

Terraform fails its operation in this case:

Therefore there should exist an option to simply update the content. Azure Portal supports this by creating a new version of the certificate:

New or Affected Resource(s)/Data Source(s)

azurerm_key_vault_certificate

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "azurerm_key_vault_certificate" "example" {
  name         = "imported-cert"
  key_vault_id = azurerm_key_vault.example.id
  create_new_version = true // <- this could indicate to not re-create the tf resource

  certificate {
    contents = filebase64("certificate-to-import.pfx")
    password = ""
  }
}

References

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[ssergio25]

We have the same issue , Terraform tries to destroy the existing certificate, when what we want to do is update a new version of the soon to be expired cert.

[ghost]

Do we have any updates on this issue, I see a PR was created a month ago but this would be good to get included in the next terraform release

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