Terraform Drift Detection: The Complete Guide
What Terraform drift is, why it happens, and four ways to detect it — from a manual terraform plan to automated PR-time detection.
Guides written from what actually breaks Terraform pipelines in production: drift, surprise cloud bills, and misconfigurations that slip past a quick glance.
What Terraform drift is, why it happens, and four ways to detect it — from a manual terraform plan to automated PR-time detection.
A practical, copy-pasteable checklist for reviewing Terraform pull requests — drift, cost, security, and policy — before they merge, not after.
A hands-on walkthrough of wiring Infracost, Checkov, and policy-as-code into Terraform CI so issues are caught before merge, not in a postmortem.
How to map Terraform PR checks to DORA and NIS2 change-management and ICT-risk requirements, and generate evidence an auditor actually wants.
OpenTofu and Terraform share a plan/state model, so most tooling carries over — here's exactly where they diverge for drift and security scanning.