I’m excited to announce the launch of Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) and Open Policy Agent (OPA) as a Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection. Teams can now automate infrastructure deployments with the right guardrails in place to enable security-enhanced operations and align with regulatory compliance.

Kubernetes has become the de facto way to run modern computing platforms, both in the cloud and on-premise. This is a huge change from just a few years ago, and it didn’t happen overnight. On the road to production readiness with Kubernetes, many have run afoul. Thanks to Kubernetes Failure Stories though, engineering teams from around the world have shared in detail what they did wrong and how they can avoid making the same mistake in the future.

Kubernetes admission control is a mechanism that validates and modifies requests to the Kubernetes API server before they are processed. Admission control can enforce policies, security rules, resource limits, default values and other elements of the cluster’s use. This mechanism can also reject requests that violate certain rules or conditions.

The practice of infrastructure as code (IaC) has enabled platform teams to control infrastructure using code stored in Git. This enables teams to apply standard development practices like code review and testing to infrastructure management. The practice of GitOps takes this a step further by: Open Policy Agent (OPA), thanks to its Rego policy language, enables organizations to manage their authorization policies as code (PaC).