Deep Dive: Terraform 1.10’s New State Locking Mechanism and How It Prevents IaC Drift for 1000+ Resource Stacks Infrastructure as Code (IaC) drift—when live infrastructure diverges from the configuration and state managed by tools like Terraform—poses outsized risks for large-scale deployments. For stacks with 1000+ resources, drift is harder to detect, more impactful when it occurs, and more likely to arise from friction in state management workflows. Terraform 1.10 addresses these pain points head-on with a complete overhaul of its state locking mechanism, designed specifically to support high-resource-count deployments and reduce drift risk. Background: IaC Drift and Legacy State Locking Limitations Terraform uses state files to map real-world resources to your configuration.…