Tired of Surprise `terraform plan` Changes — So I Built a Drift Detector

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Tired of Surprise `terraform plan` Changes — So I Built a Drift Detector Hey r/devops I’m a DevOps engineer with \~3 years of experience, and I kept running into the same issue: someone changes something directly in the AWS console, Terraform state drifts, and I only discover it when `terraform plan` suddenly shows 40 unexpected changes right before a deploy. After dealing with that enough times, I decided to build something to make drift easier to understand and debug. Full disclosure: I vibecoded most of this with Claude. I’m not a frontend/JS developer, but I knew exactly what workflow I wanted, and I think it solves a real pain point. # What it does * Reads your `.tfstate` file (local or S3) and gives you a visual dashboard of resources grouped by type/category * Runs live drift detection against AWS APIs and shows the exact attributes that changed — not just “resource differs” * Includes a Plan Analyzer: paste `terraform show -json tfplan` output and it compares: * what your Terraform config wants * what AWS actually has * what the state file believes GitHub: [[link] Currently supports 34 AWS resource types across: EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, ECS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, SQS, SNS, Route53, and more. Runs with Docker Compose in a single command. I know I didn’t manually write every line of code, but I did design the architecture, define the workflows/features, and validate it against real AWS infrastructure. Would genuinely love feedback from people who deal with Terraform at scale: * Is this a problem you actually run into? * What would need to exist for you to use this in production? * Any thoughts on querying AWS APIs directly vs relying on `terraform refresh`? Happy to hear brutal feedback too. [link] [handle]

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