Verifying your Drupal site’s configuration against changes from dependency updates

Previously, I wrote about leveraging Dependabot to automate dependency updates for my Drupal projects. Automating dependency updates saves a lot of time. However, Drupal core or contributed modules may perform updates that modify the configuration state of your Drupal site that needs to be re-exported. A standard continuous integration pipeline that only performs code linting and tests will miss these changes. For my projects, I have a job that runs the update process for the Drupal site and fails if the…