Configuration Drift

When the running system diverges from its declared state — manual SSH fixes, time-based decay, partial deploys. Detection (Puppet / Chef / Salt periodic runs, AWS Config, Terraform plan, Ansible --check), remediation choices (auto-correct vs alert-only), and the modern stance: don't remediate, replace.

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