{"id":10857,"date":"2021-07-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2021-04-08T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:59:16","slug":"policy-as-code-establishing-repeatable-and-versionable-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/policy-as-code-establishing-repeatable-and-versionable-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy As Code: Establishing Repeatable and Versionable Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Policy as Code<\/a> is an automated system that defines policy and policy management though data and code. Standard software techniques like version control, automated testing and automated deployment can then be applied to the policy definitions. Encapsulating policy definitions as code and data make them repeatable and versionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Hinrichs, CTO at Styra, wrote that<\/a> “because the policy is code, just like the app is code, teams can monitor, audit, and more easily collaborate on those policies with the existing cloud-native tools, processes, and pipelines they already use.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the benefits of Policy as code<\/a> include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n