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Open Policy Agent
Policy engine for unified policy enforcement across the stack
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
steep
Maturity
mature
Languages: Rego
Architecture: policy-engine
When to Use
- +Policy-as-code
- +Kubernetes admission
- +Unified authorization
When Not to Use
- -Simple authorization
- -Small scale
Strengths
- CNCF graduated
- Unified policy
- Language agnostic
- Extensible
Weaknesses
- Rego learning curve
- Complex for simple cases
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: self-hosted
Quick Facts
- Category
- security
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- stable
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
mediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Authorization
- Admission control
- API authorization
- Infrastructure policies
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