Demo: Detecting Drifts on a CloudFormation Stack
Explore how to detect and address infrastructure drift in AWS CloudFormation stacks. Understand the impact of manual changes on your infrastructure state and learn the steps to use AWS tools to identify and manage drift. Gain hands-on experience ensuring your cloud resources stay aligned with defined templates for reliable deployments.
Infrastructure drift is a fundamental concept to understand and ensure that it doesn’t happen in our environments.
Infrastructure drift
Imagine we developed a template and provisioned a set of services for our application using AWS CloudFormation. Later, it was found that one of the provisioned services had an incorrect configuration. To address it, a team member launched the service from the AWS Console and fixed it manually. Though this seems like a day-to-day ...