Question

A cloud engineering team maintains separate Terraform configurations for a web server cluster in three different projects. Each configuration copies and pastes nearly identical resource definitions for compute instances, security rules, and load balancers. When a required change is made, engineers must manually update all three files, and inconsistencies frequently appear. Which practice best addresses this problem?

Accepted Answer

Refactor the duplicated resource definitions into a reusable module that all three configurations reference

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Store the state files in a single shared bucket so all configurations remain synchronized

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Enable drift detection so the tool automatically corrects any inconsistencies between the files

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Increase the frequency of pipeline runs so changes propagate to all configurations faster