There are 2 different use cases. One is where you wany your IAC configuration to be the source of truth - any changes made outside of IAC are drift and should be fixed. The other one is where you want to take the changes thatbare made OOB and update your IAC configuration to mirror then - in this case you use the IAC config to document the state of your live infra.
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There are 2 different use cases. One is where you wany your IAC configuration to be the source of truth - any changes made outside of IAC are drift and should be fixed. The other one is where you want to take the changes thatbare made OOB and update your IAC configuration to mirror then - in this case you use the IAC config to document the state of your live infra.