The Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a policy engine that automates and unifies the implementation of policies across IT environments, especially in cloud native applications. OPA was originally created by Styra, and has since been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The OPA is offered for use under an open source license.
Organizations use the OPA to automatically enforce, monitor, and remediate policies across all relevant components. You can use OPA to centralize operational, security, and compliance across Kubernetes, application programming interface (API) gateways, continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, data protection, and more.