Ten years in the trenches of IT infrastructure, and I’ve seen more than my fair share of digital upheaval. We’ve all been there: the frantic Slack messages at 2 a.m., the panic when a deployment blows up, the cryptic error logs that make your brain hurt. But the real horror? The moment you realize your *infrastructure* isn’t actually *yours* to control. It’s a ghost in the machine, silently drifting away from your intended state. This isn’t just a DevOps problem—it’s a fundam