# Infrastructure Control Plane | Day 2 Operations & Drift

DevFeed: [Infrastructure Control Plane | Day 2 Operations & Drift](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/infrastructure-control-plane-day-2-operations-drift-13429.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/infrastructure-breaks-after-deployment-why-day-2-operations-demand-a-control-plane>)

Author: Nicole Morgan

Published: 2026-08-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [Infrastructure as code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [Software-defined networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdn.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [Ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ansible.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [AWS CloudFormation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-cloudformation.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ansible.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [cloudformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudformation.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains that infrastructure problems often emerge during day 2 operations, after initial deployment. It describes how console changes, incidents, and isolated Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD workflows create infrastructure drift, and argues that control planes can enforce governance, detect divergence, and automate remediation.

## Source excerpt

Learn why infrastructure breaks after deployment and how control planes enforce governance, detect drift, and automate remediation across Terraform, Ansible, an | Blog