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[FEATURE] Document behavior of live TLS certificate refresh #1877

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@patcable

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Sort of. There is functionality in opensearch-security to reload TLS certificates in opensearch-security. It's not really documented, though.

What solution would you like?
Let folks know about the plugins.security.ssl_cert_reload_enabled flag, and that certificate reloads can be triggered with a PUT to /_opendistro/_security/api/ssl/{http,transport}/reloadcerts. Also let folks know what API access is required to make that happen.

What alternatives have you considered?
I could restart Opensearch i suppose, but, would like to avoid that if I can.

Do you have any additional context?
We issue short-ish (weeks) lived PKI certificates using Hashicorp Vault. They work well, but I'd like to avoid having to restart OS if possible. Code for the SSLReloadCertsAction is available here.

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