What is Configuration Drift? Tools, Causes & Risks
· via Spacelift
Summary: Drift is the gap between what your code says and what actually runs, accumulating through reasonable actions like hotfixes and console edits. The risk compounds silently: the next apply either reverts someone’s fix or fails on state it does not expect. Detection is cheap now, and continuous drift checks belong next to your other scheduled jobs.
Who should read it: anyone operating IaC alongside humans with console access, which is everyone.