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# [The Silent Infrastructure Drift That Terraform Couldn't See](https://devopswork.hashnode.dev/the-silent-infrastructure-drift-that-terraform-couldn-t-see?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How a Kubernetes immutable field, a 6-year-old Terraform SDK bug, and an unmaintained community provider combined to create invisible state drift — and the DevOps detective work that uncovered it. It

Jun 30 · 10 min read · devopswork.hashnode.dev  
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