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IaC (capturing desired state declaratively) is a no-brainer for things like cloud resources IMO. Most use IaC for non-compute resources (e.x. DBs) and K8s for containerized compute workloads.

> But less so uniformity, since all providers are different

People sometimes misinterpret tools like Terraform supporting different vendors/hyperscalers as it providing a unified abstraction layer above them. As you note, it does not.

I simply fail to understand why automatic drift correction is considered important in this space. Cloud resources do not magically change themselves. Folks often cite rogue engineers making changes, but I prefer to deal with this scenario by whacking people with a stick and/or limiting access. Automatic drift correction can actually complicate making legitimate emergency changes to managed infrastructure.