We recently released the first versions of driftctl, a new open-source project for infrastructure developers, DevOps, SRE, and cloud practitioners, with the goal of helping manage all kinds of drifts.  (Stephane Jourdan – CTO and founder)

Why? Because infrastructure is a living thing and changes are risky.

In the team, we all managed cloud infrastructures at some level at our previous jobs, as developers with serverless function needs or DevOps managing large production systems. And we all knew that sometimes an emergency required a manual change, a customer tweaked a setting on the console, the boss activated something that had an impact later…or put more simply, that the whole infrastructure was just not totally under control by Terraform (or similar tool), just because ops life in production is rarely perfect and ideal.

And all those tiny changes sometimes got forgotten about, or partially implemented in infrastructure-as-code later on, unfortunately leading to security issues, unstable environments, failed deployments, unexpectedly important bills. And thus this makes us lose the advantages of IaC.

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