Exercise 15 · Microsoft Learn

Understand and prevent drift

Read the official guidance on detecting drift, reviewing replacement risk, using lifecycle safeguards, and reconciling out-of-band changes.

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Read the drift guidance

Focus on plan review, replacement risk, prevent_destroy, targeted ignore_changes, and reconciliation after approved Azure operations.

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Operate the sandbox

Exercise 16 applies the guidance through controlled drift, import, an address move, and reviewed decommissioning.