Devops

What is a configuration drift? What problems is it causing?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Configuration drift happens when in an environment of servers with the exact same configuration and software, a certain server or servers are being applied with updates or configuration which other servers don't get and over time these servers become slightly different than all others.

This situation might lead to bugs which hard to identify and reproduce.