state drift
When a system's actual state has moved, or is moving, away from its desired state.
In more detail
A hand edit, a failed node or another controller can all cause it. In GitOps, reconciliation detects the divergence and acts to remove it.
Related terms
- desired state — A description of how a machine should look when the work is finished, rather than a list of steps to get there.
- reconciliation — The repeated check-and-fix loop in which a program compares desired state with observed state and changes the world to match.
Taught in
- A Hotfix At 3 A.M.: Who Wins At 3:05? — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Staging Is Gone: Desired State, Declarations And The State Store — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Edits At 2 A.M.: Drift And Reconciliation — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Two Ways Back From 2.5: Rollback The GitOps Way — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Terminology Sprint: One Incident, Nine Terms — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Twelve Keys To Production: Pulled Automatically — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- An Hour Without Payments: Continuously Reconciled — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Principles Sprint: Six Setups, One Question — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Two Clicks Nobody Wrote Down: Configuration And Infrastructure As Code — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Related Practices Sprint: One Change, Five Practices — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Thursday, With A Way Back: Promotion, Deploy And Release — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Minutes Of Waiting: Pull Versus Event-Driven — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Three Teams, Three Formats: Manifests And Packaging — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- A Bake-Off With One Rule: Argo CD And Flux — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Tooling Sprint: The CTO's Shopping List — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- Forty-Six Of Sixty: The Mock And What It Tells You — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep
- The Evening Before: Final Review — Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) Exam Prep