Open Policy Agent

General-purpose policy engine evaluating Rego policies and returning decisions, not enforcement.

Provider: default
Kind: Policy engine
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs

Properties · 3 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
bundleDistribution · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
deploymentMode · component property	enum	daemon \| sidecar \| library \| cli	no	daemon	inherited
effect	enum	audit \| deny \| modify \| deploy-if-not-exists	no	—	inherited
enforcementMode	enum	enforced \| disabled	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
policyCount	integer	—	no	—	inherited
policyLanguage · component property	enum	rego	no	rego	inherited
remediation	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
scope	enum	resource \| group \| account \| organization	no	—	▸ resource

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Open Policy Agent: general-purpose policy engine that decides, it does not enforce.
3# "Open Policy Agent Documentation": policies are written in Rego; OPA runs as a daemon, sidecar,
4# CLI or embedded Go library and returns arbitrary structured decisions, so no effect is assumed.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "opa"
8kind: "policy-engine"
9provider: "default"
10docs: "https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs"
11defaults:
12  scope: "resource"
13  remediation: false
14  managed: false
15properties:
16  policyLanguage:
17    type: "enum"
18    values: ["rego"]
19    default: "rego"
20  deploymentMode:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["daemon", "sidecar", "library", "cli"]
23    default: "daemon"
24  bundleDistribution:
25    type: "boolean"
26    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/opa.md