Policy as Code in Practice: Bridging Compliance and DevOps with Fresh Insights
In this article, I share my decade of experience integrating policy as code into DevOps pipelines, focusing on how organizations can bridge compliance and development without sacrificing velocity. Drawing from real client projects in 2023 and 2024, I compare three leading tools—Open Policy Agent, HashiCorp Sentinel, and Styra DAS—detailing their strengths and limitations. I explain why traditional compliance gates fail, how policy as code shifts left, and provide a step-by-step framework for imp