resource/aws_acmpca_certificate_authority: Remove returned status value

[gdavison]

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Description

When an aws_acmpca_certificate_authority is created, it enters the state CERTIFICATE_PENDING, where it needs to have a certificate imported before it can be used. A root CA can create its own self-signed certificate when in this state.

A certificate can be imported using the console, API, or CLI, and there is work in progress to add the aws_acmpca_certificate_authority_certificate resource. When a certificate is imported, the status of the certificate authority changes to ACTIVE. In all of the above cases, Terraform will still report the status CERTIFICATE_PENDING.

The only other practitioner-controllable status is DISABLED. All other states are transitional, and the providers waits until the resource reaches a non-transitional state. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm-pca/latest/userguide/PCAUpdateCA.html details the possible states.

Switching between ACTIVE and DISABLED is controlled by the enabled flag on the resource.

These factors make the status field superfluous and sometimes-incorrect, so it should be removed.

Affected Resource

• aws_acmpca_certificate_authority

[zhelding]

PR #22878 has deprecated the status attribute as part of release v4.0.

The status attribute is scheduled to be removed as part of major version release v5.0.

[jar-b]

Closed by #31084, merged to main via #31392

[github-actions]

This functionality has been released in v5.0.0 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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