What infrastructure-as-code doesn't cover: the machines configured by hand
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An entire fleet of VMs versioned, with a pipeline that verifies signatures and redeploys itself every 30 minutes. And then two or three machines, outside that system, whose state only lives on themselves. This post is about a case I see regularly, and rarely documented honestly: the technical debt that piles up on the exceptions to the very system you built yourself.