Achieve compliance using policy as code at enterprise scale

Policy as code enables enterprises to enforce compliance rules and security standards on their compute infrastrucure. As infrastrucure as code is becoming a norm to provision cloud infrastructure that caters to cloud native applications.Cloud native applications are built and deployed more dynamically than before. This gives rise to a challenge of standardising infrastrucure and processes.Policies cna be defined as code and implemented at enterprise level ensuring certain guardrails are implemented. The development lifecycle of such policies leverages benifits of Version control, automation and serves as documentation.

Let’s look at current frameworks for policy as code

Hashicorp’s Sentinel

Open Policy Agent

Pulumi CrossGuard

Kubewarden

Scalr

Spacelift

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