AddParameter with random value
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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.
Some parameters are only used locally at runtime and setting up a value for them is tedious/useless.
### Describe the solution you'd like
It would be cool if we could define a parameter without bothering about their value. It's only important that we have a reference of *a* value to be shared across multiple services.
I find myself adding this extension method to most of my AppHosts
```csharp
public static IResourceBuilder AddParameterWithRandomValue(this IDistributedApplicationBuilder builder, [ResourceName] string name, bool secret = false)
{
const string chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
var value = System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator.GetString(chars, 16);
return builder.AddParameter(name, value, secret: secret);
}
```
And use it as
```csharp
var parentSecretKey = builder.AddParameterWithRandomValue("parentSecretKey");
```
### Additional context
I know there is a `CreateDefaultPasswordParameter` exposed by `ParameterResourceBuilderExtensions`, so probably it should be used instead of `RandomNumberGenerator.GetString`.
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