Idempotent Operation - CI/CD Glossary Definition
An idempotent operation produces the same result whether it runs once or many times, so re-applying an IaC configuration that is already in the desired state changes nothing.
An idempotent operation produces the same result whether it runs once or many times, so re-applying an IaC configuration that is already in the desired state changes nothing.
Idempotency is what makes it safe to re-run a deploy pipeline: repeated apply calls converge rather than pile up side effects.
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