Drift occurs when actual infrastructure state differs from the IaC definition. Causes: manual changes, external tools, or incomplete imports. Detection: terraform plan, Pulumi preview, Azure Resource Graph queries. Remediation strategies: auto-fix, alert and review, or reconcile in code. Prevention through RBAC and policy.
The 5-Mode Loop
5 of 5 modes available
Read · See · Animate · Test · Build
Before this, understand: state management