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Platform & DevOps·Secrets, identity and the supply chain

the rule that every workload must set resource limits is a file with tests, and it fails the pipeline rather than a review.

Policy as code

Also calledpolicy-as-code, guardrails as code, OPA policy

Expressing organisational rules as executable, versioned, testable code evaluated automatically. It converts standards from documents people are supposed to have read into checks that run, and it makes exceptions explicit and reviewable rather than tacit. Rolling it out in report-only mode first is essential, because a policy applied to an existing estate always turns out to have more violations than anyone predicted.

Commonly confused with