Drift Detection Is Solved. Drift Remediation Is Not.
Your Terraform plan told you the security group changed. It has been telling you for eleven days. Nobody has reverted it, and nobody can tell you if reverting it is safe. That is the actual state of infrastructure drift in most teams. The detection problem is genuinely solved — terraform plan , kubectl diff , cloud provider config rules, and GitOps reconcilers all give you a precise, timestamped…
Terraform plans, Kubernetes diff checks, cloud provider configuration rules, and GitOps reconcilers have all provided precise, timestamped differences between intended and actual states, solving the problem of infrastructure drift detection. However, remediation remains a manual and risky process. The detection layer is now highly effective, but the next crucial step—identifying who made the change, why it occurred, and whether it's safe to revert—is still a manual investigation.
This gap is where outages originate. The detection problem is solved, but remediation remains a significant challenge.
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