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Simulating Configuration Drift

To be sure that your infrastructure drift configuration is effective, you'll manually impose a deviation from your desired state and use infrastructure tools to catch and identify the change.

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Level
Advanced
Last updated
Apr 01, 2026
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Set Up Your Environment

    You'll review your Ansible configuration to identify key system hardening settings that should exist.

  2. Challenge

    Identify the Host State

    Before imposing a change to your infrastructure, you will identify the current state of your container systems.

  3. Challenge

    Apply Changes to a Host

    To test your setup, you'll manually apply changes to at least one deployed container.

  4. Challenge

    Verify Deviation from State

    Once you've executed the configuration changes, you'll verify that the settings have, indeed, deviated from the ideal.

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