🚀 Troubleshooting Critical Terraform Drift
Vikaskumar dane
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Posted Feb 8, 2026
🚀 Troubleshooting Critical Terraform Drift in AWS Production Project Description / Post Body: I recently encountered a critical CI/CD failure while deployin...
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🚀 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)
