In an ideal DevOps world, every cloud resource is spawned from Terraform or Bicep. In the real world, we deal with “ClickOps.” An engineer manually tweaks a Network Security Group (NSG) to fix a production outage, or a legacy resource group exists with no code definition at all.
When a disaster strikes — such as the accidental deletion of a resource group — you can’t just “re-run the pipeline” if the pipeline doesn’t match reality.