Demo: Detecting Drifts on a CloudFormation Stack
Understand infrastructure drift by manually updating services.
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 process, it must be avoided when we provision infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation. Because of the incremental ...