From Desired State to Negotiated State

GitOps, Terraform, ArgoCD—they all share the same promise: declare your desired state in code, and the tooling makes it real. Your code is the source of truth. Except it is not. Not really. Your HPA scaled replicas at 2am because traffic spiked. Your security scanner patched a vulnerable image. Your cost optimizer right-sized an instance. Your on-call engineer hotfixed a config during an incident.…