Each component of the pipeline should be responsible for persisting "sensitive" data

[michalpristas]

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followup to #31074

Each component of the pipeline should be responsible for persisting "sensitive" data upon failures, restarts etc.

Describe the solution you'd like

I look at this as a matter of stateful vs stateless components. Stateful components should persist their state during shutdown if a storage extension is available. There may be a case for formalizing a declaration of statefulness so that we can more easily enforce standards like this. e.g. Add a flag to consumer.Capabilities or metadata.yaml files.
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