February 3

Terraform Drift Detection

Technology and engineering is an ever changing landscape with new technologies, methodologies and best practices appearing and being refined as time goes on. One key practice that has become a core requirement within Cloud Engineering especially is understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and within that space, Terraform, in part thanks to its library of providers that allows it to be used across all major clouds and even on-prem systems, has become a top choice across the industry with more and more businesses embracing it for their infrastructure automation. One pressing issue that teams come across when using IaC, especially in their infancy of utilising it is infrastructure drift which is a challenge that brings drift detection to the forefront of the minds of many teams. Continue reading