State drift in Terraform
WHAT IT TESTS: IaC state versus reality. OUTLINE: drift is when live infrastructure diverges from recorded state, usually via manual console changes; detect with plan or refresh, remediate by re-applying or importing. RED FLAG: hand-editing state.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you understand how IaC tracks reality and how it desynchronizes. ANSWER OUTLINE: state drift is when actual cloud resources differ from what the IaC state file records, typically because someone changed a resource manually out of band. Detect it by running plan or refresh, which compares live infrastructure against state and config and shows the diff. Remediate by re-applying to converge reality back to desired state, or by importing or updating config if the change should stay. RED FLAG: hand-editing state files.
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