🚀 Troubleshooting Critical Terraform Drift

🚀 Troubleshooting Critical Terraform Drift in AWS Production

Project Description / Post Body: I recently encountered a critical CI/CD failure while deploying a serverless backend to a new AWS environment. The pipeline was paralyzed due to "Resource Drift"—a mismatch between the Terraform state file and the actual infrastructure.

The Challenge:

A manual "hotfix" in the AWS Console created "ghost resources" (Secrets) that Terraform couldn't see.

This caused repeated deployment failures and blocked the staging environment.

The Solution: Instead of tearing down the environment, I used the terraform import workflow to:

Documented the full fix in my technical blog (Link below)