IaC Core
State & drift
Lesson 2 of 5
Terraform records what it built in a state file; remote state shares it across a team, and drift is the gap that opens when reality changes outside Terraform.
What you'll learn
- Understand why Terraform needs a state file at all
- See why production state belongs in a remote, locked backend
- Recognize drift as the divergence between state and live reality
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