In the context of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), drift occurs when actual runtime environments diverge from their defined states, posing risks to reliability, security, and compliance. Drift detection tools help operations teams identify these discrepancies but fall short by not providing insights into their causes. Many accidents arise from manual changes or updates outside the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, resulting in a lack of audit trails. Thus, resolving drift becomes problematic, where reverting changes may inadvertently undo legitimate configurations, revealing a substantial gap in current DevOps practices.
To effectively manage drift, the infrastructure operations teams must prioritize understanding the origins rather than just detecting discrepancies, which requires more sophisticated tools.
Drift detection tools help identify issues between the desired IaC state and the current runtime environment, but they often lack insights into the root causes.
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