Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: Validating OPA Policies in the CLI
The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that provides a framework for validating structured data across your cloud-native stack. It encourages users to write policy-as-code to extend the community’s move towards infrastructure as code (IaC). OPA can validate any kind of structured data, including Terraform, HTTP requests, Envoy, Kafka, SQL, Linux, and Dockerfiles; it is frequently used and associated with Kubernetes manifests.