---
type: "Specification"
title: "Open Policy Agent (OPA)"
description: "Policy-as-code: decoupled decisions across the stack."
resource: "https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/"
tags: [opa, policy, cncf]
generated: { by: human:crpage, at: 2026-07-09T09:44:00Z }
status: stable
sources: [{ id: primary, resource: "https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/" }]
---

A CNCF-graduated project that decouples policy *decisions* from *enforcement* across microservices, API gateways, CI/CD and Kubernetes, with policy testing support. Provides runtime guardrails and admission control; does not issue identity or provide observability.