Drift detection for Terraform can range from a shell script running terraform plan on a cron schedule to a fully integrated platform that monitors every workspace in your organization. The approach you choose shapes how quickly you catch drift, how much operational overhead you carry, and whether your team actually

You’ve detected drift in your Terraform-managed infrastructure. Now what? The answer depends entirely on context — what changed, why it changed, and whether the change should persist. Making the wrong call here can be worse than the drift itself: blindly reverting an emergency scaling event could cause an outage, while

Infrastructure drift is inevitable. Someone makes a manual change in the AWS console during an incident, an auto-scaling event modifies a resource outside of Terraform’s control, or a teammate applies a hotfix directly to production. The question isn’t whether drift will happen — it’s whether you’ll catch