Kubernetes Pod Security Policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA)

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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration platform in today’s cloud-native ecosystem. Consequently, Kubernetes is also an area of increased interest and attention.

In this blog post, first I will discuss the Pod Security Policy admission controller. Then we will see how Open Policy Agent can implement Pod Security Policies. In fact, during Kubernetes SIG Auth at Kubecon + CloudNaticeCon North America 2019, Open Policy Agent/Gatekeeper was touched upon as a potential alternative to Pod Security Policy.


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