provider-actions

A guide for implementing Terraform Provider Actions using the Plugin Framework. Actions are experimental lifecycle hooks that run imperative operations before or after resource create and update events. Covers schema definition, invocation logic, testing patterns, and documentation standards. Manually coordinating imperative operations around Terraform lifecycle events requires external scripts or null resources with triggers, but this guide gives you a structured, framework-native pattern with built-in progress reporting, timeout handling, and typed schema definitions.