Retry provider operations

[danielrbradley]

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Issue details

Allow a resource operation to be retried if it initially fails. Occasionally a resource creation, update or delete can fail with transient errors (which resolve themselves after a short amount of time). Retry mechanisms are sometimes implemented by specific providers, but we could also make this behaviour available to all resource via a generic resource option.

Examples of reasons to need retry:

• Service unavailable during brief maintanance period.
• Internal replication delays causing one service to not see another newly created resource in a different service.

Affected area/feature

[Frassle]

#7932 ?

[justinvp]

Closing as dupe of #7932