How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call
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Kiril urbonas
last month • 1 min read•Updated Mar 14, 2026•1 view
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
Our worst incident of last year started with a simple question: “Why is there an EC2 instance we can't find in Terraform?”
```bash terraform plan -detailed-exitcode || echo "Drift detected" ```
Drift still happens, but on-call no longer learns about it at the worst possible moment.
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