Manual updates are common causes of what?

In GitOps, thedesired stateis stored in Git. Manual updates applied directly to the cluster (via kubectl or APIs) change theactual statewithout updating Git. This introducesdriftbetween actual and desired state.

“Manual changes to the runtime environment cause the actual state to diverge from the desired state stored in Git. This drift must be detected and reconciled automatically.”

Thus, the correct answer isC.