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ColdFusion Deployment Secrets Exposed in Terraform State

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  Plaintext by Design: Getting ColdFusion Secrets Out of Your Terraform State An auditor asks to see your Terraform state file. Someone opens it, searches for “password,” and finds the production ColdFusion datasource credential sitting there in readable text. Alongside it is the ColdFusion administrator password, because a provisioning script needed it. Read More

ColdFusion Infrastructure Deployment With Terraform Creates Inconsistent Environments

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  Same Code, Different Server: Why Terraform-Built ColdFusion Environments Drift Apart Staging works. Production does not. The Terraform configuration is identical, committed to the same repository, applied from the same pipeline. Yet a ColdFusion page that renders cleanly in staging throws an error in production. Read More

ColdFusion Kubernetes Ephemeral Storage Filling From Application Logs

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  The Disk You Forgot You Had: Stopping ColdFusion Logs From Filling Kubernetes Ephemeral Storage Your pods were stable for six weeks. Then, within an hour, three of them were evicted. Nothing changed in the code. Traffic was ordinary. Memory and CPU graphs looked healthy. Read More

ColdFusion Kubernetes CPU Throttling Causing Unpredictable Request Latency

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  Fast, Then Suddenly Slow: Diagnosing CPU Throttling in ColdFusion Kubernetes Pods Your dashboard shows CPU utilization at 35%. There is clearly headroom. Yet your 95th-percentile response time is six times your median, and nobody can explain why. Read More

ColdFusion Kubernetes Rolling Update Causing Mixed Application Versions

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  Two Versions, One Website: Surviving the Mixed-Version Window in ColdFusion Rollouts A user logs in. They browse three pages. Then they submit a form and get thrown back to the login screen. Another user loads a page that looks broken, with unstyled text and a missing script. A third user hits a cart page that insists their cart is empty. Read More

ColdFusion Kubernetes Pod Eviction Causing Incomplete Background Jobs

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  Killed Mid-Task: Protecting ColdFusion Background Jobs From Kubernetes Pod Eviction A nightly invoice run processes 40,000 records. The job starts on schedule. At 2:14 a.m., the pod disappears. Your monitoring shows the deployment healthy again within seconds. The next morning, finance reports 11,000 invoices generated and 29,000 missing. Read More

ColdFusion GraphQL Subscription Connection Drops Unexpectedly

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  The Silent Disconnect: Why Your ColdFusion GraphQL Subscription Keeps Dropping A dashboard shows live order updates. Everything works for a few minutes. Then the feed goes quiet. No error appears. Users refresh the page and the data returns. Your logs show a closed WebSocket and nothing else. Read More