Introducing Harness Policy as Code, Powered by OPA

Harness Policy as Code, powered by Open Policy Agent (OPA), is a centralized policy management service that allows enterprises to define and enforce compliance and security policies across CI, CD, and Feature Flags pipelines, ensuring a balance between developer autonomy and governance to expedite software delivery while maintaining standards. This solution leverages OPA, an open-source project widely adopted for software delivery, enabling policies to be written as declarative code, thus making them easily understandable and modifiable. As organizations adopt DevOps, the need for centralized policy management becomes critical to avoid bottlenecks and risks associated with decentralized process control, particularly in regulated industries like financial services and healthcare. Harness Policy as Code provides features such as a Policy Editor, a library of sample policies, and an audit trail, allowing policies to be automatically enforced on various processes while offering the flexibility to set severity levels for violations. By ensuring compliance and security, the service empowers development teams to manage their own processes with oversight, preventing deviations from standards and mitigating risks without hindering innovation.