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type: "Glossary term"
title: "Policy-as-code"
description: "Decoupling policy decisions from enforcement points across services."
tags: [glossary]
generated: { by: human:crpage, at: 2026-07-09T09:44:00Z }
aliases: "policy-as-code; policy as code"
status: stable

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Expressing authorisation/governance rules as code and decoupling the decision from the enforcement point across services, gateways, CI/CD and Kubernetes — the OPA model.

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Appears in: opa, policy-enforcement.

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