Why your production servers are failing health checks (and how to fix it for good)

Your staging environment passes all tests. Your production deployment worked flawlessly last month. But now your servers are throwing random 500s, failing health checks, and behaving differently across instances.

Sound familiar? You're dealing with configuration drift, and it's about to make your next zero downtime migration a nightmare.

Let me walk you through the two approaches to solving this problem, and when to choose each one.

The configuration drift trap