jargon

Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps

someone scaled the deployment by hand during a spike and the agent scaled it straight back down, twice.

GitOps drift

Also calledsync drift, out-of-sync, manual change reverted

Divergence between the repository's declared state and the cluster's actual state, which a reconciling agent will correct without being asked. It makes emergency manual intervention a fight with automation, and the resolution is either to commit the change or to pause reconciliation deliberately for the duration. Teams that do neither spend an incident wondering why their fix keeps disappearing.

Commonly confused with