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Introduction

Welcome to the DriftE Documentation. (Current version: v1.5.5)

DriftE (Drift Enforcer) is a high-performance infrastructure observability platform designed to identify and manage the divergence between your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and your actual cloud reality.

Why DriftE?​

In modern cloud environments, "Reality Distorts." Manual hotfixes, automated scaling and out-of-band changes create a gap between what your code says and what is actually running. This divergence causes:

  • Security Gaps: Unmanaged resources (Ghost Assets) that bypass your security controls.
  • Compliance Violations: Manual changes that violate your organizational standards.
  • Operational Risk: Configuration drift that leads to "it worked in my environment" outages.

DriftE identifies these discrepancies in real-time, allowing you to Enforce Reality in IaC.

Key Features​

  • Real-time Detection: Get notified the moment reality diverges from code.
  • Ghost Resource Discovery: Identify every resource in your cloud, even those not managed by Terraform.
  • Side-by-Side Comparison: Understand exactly what changed with deep configuration diffs.
  • Cloud Governance: Enforce organizational standards with custom validation rules.
  • Security-First Architecture: Localized execution ensures that while DriftE requires cloud credentials and state files to perform analysis, they never leave your infrastructure.

How it Works​

DriftE operates on a decentralized model. You run a standalone runner binary within your trusted environment. The runner snapshots your cloud state, fetches your Terraform state and performs a SQL-native comparison locally. Only sanitized, encrypted metadata is sent to the SaaS dashboard for reporting and alerting.

Ready to get started? Install the DriftE Runner.

Exploring FinOps?​

Learn how to identify and eliminate cloud waste with the new FinE (Ghost Spend Enforcer) module.