intermediate 12 min overview cloud-providers Updated: 2025-10-11

Kubernetes Policy Governance: From Basics to Advanced

Complete guide to Kubernetes policy enforcement with OPA Gatekeeper, admission controllers, and security best practices.

🎯 Your Kubernetes Policy Governance Learning Path

1

Getting Started

Write your first Kubernetes policy with hands-on examples

2

Policy Engines

Compare and master Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and Polaris

3

Advanced Patterns

Complex governance scenarios and security patterns

🏷️ Topics Covered

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Getting Started

Write your first Kubernetes policy

beginner 30 min read

Complete Guide: How to Write Your First Kubernetes Policy

A step-by-step tutorial on writing, testing, and deploying your first Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper policy to enforce custom rules on your Kubernetes cluster.

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intermediate 25 min read

OPA vs Sentinel: Enterprise Policy as Code Comparison (2025)

A comprehensive comparison of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and HashiCorp Sentinel for policy as code. Compare language, use cases, integrations, ecosystem, and enterprise features to choose the right solution.

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Policy Engines

Compare Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and Polaris

advanced 35 min read

Kubernetes Policy Engines

Compare and implement policies using OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and Polaris.

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Advanced Patterns

Complex governance scenarios

expert 40 min read

Advanced Policy Patterns

Explore complex policy design for dynamic, data-driven, and context-aware infrastructure governance.

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expert 45 min read

Zero Trust Architecture

Build and enforce Zero Trust principles in your deployments using policy-as-code as the foundation.

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All Kubernetes Policy Guides

intermediate 40 min read

Open Policy Agent (OPA) Tutorial

An in-depth, hands-on guide to learning Open Policy Agent and the Rego language for unified policy enforcement across your stack.
intermediate 30 min read

Cedar Policy Language Guide

Learn the fundamentals of Cedar, the high-performance policy language from AWS, for building secure and auditable application authorization.
intermediate 45 min read

OPA & Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Policy-as-Code Guardrails (2025 Edition)

Master the integration of Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Terraform to enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices on your infrastructure as code.
beginner 30 min read

Complete Guide: How to Write Your First Kubernetes Policy

A step-by-step tutorial on writing, testing, and deploying your first Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper policy to enforce custom rules on your Kubernetes cluster.
advanced 35 min read

Kubernetes Policy Engines

Compare and implement policies using OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and Polaris.
intermediate 25 min read

OPA vs Sentinel: Enterprise Policy as Code Comparison (2025)

A comprehensive comparison of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and HashiCorp Sentinel for policy as code. Compare language, use cases, integrations, ecosystem, and enterprise features to choose the right solution.
intermediate 20 min read

Fixing 'Undefined Decision' Errors in OPA Rego Policies (2025)

A comprehensive troubleshooting guide for OPA Rego undefined decision errors. Learn why decisions are undefined, how to fix them, and best practices for robust policy writing.
intermediate 25 min read

Debugging Kubernetes NetworkPolicy: Complete Troubleshooting Guide (2025)

A comprehensive guide to debugging Kubernetes NetworkPolicy issues. Learn how to troubleshoot connection failures, test policies, and fix common NetworkPolicy configuration problems.
advanced 40 min read

Implementing CIS Benchmarks

Translate CIS security benchmarks into enforceable policies across cloud platforms.
intermediate 30 min read

Enforcing CIS Benchmarks

Write policies to automate compliance checks for CIS security standards.
advanced 28 min read

Infrastructure Drift Detection

Advanced techniques for detecting configuration drift in cloud infrastructure.
advanced 28 min read

Infrastructure Drift Detection

Advanced techniques for detecting and managing configuration drift in your cloud environments.
intermediate 15 min read

Policy as Code vs. IaC Security: What's the Difference?

Clarify the crucial distinctions between Policy-as-Code (PaC) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security scanning, and learn how they work together to create a robust cloud security posture.
intermediate 20 min read

Policy Checks in GitHub Actions

Integrate policy validation into your GitHub Actions workflows.
intermediate 25 min read

Testing Your Policies

Best practices for unit testing and integration testing your policy definitions.
advanced 25 min read

Policy Monitoring & Observability

Monitor and measure policy system performance and effectiveness.
expert 30 min read

Policy Engine Performance

Optimize policy evaluation for large-scale infrastructure deployments.
expert 40 min read

Advanced Policy Patterns

Explore complex policy design for dynamic, data-driven, and context-aware infrastructure governance.
expert 45 min read

Zero Trust Architecture

Build and enforce Zero Trust principles in your deployments using policy-as-code as the foundation.
expert 30 min read

Policy Engine Performance

Optimize policy evaluation for large-scale infrastructure deployments.
intermediate 25 min read

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Network Policies

Master Kubernetes network security by learning how to write, apply, and troubleshoot NetworkPolicy resources to control traffic flow between your pods.
advanced 30 min read

OPA Gatekeeper Tutorial

A step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and writing your first policies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper on Kubernetes.
intermediate 30 min read

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: AWS EKS vs GKE vs AKS (2025)

A comprehensive guide to reducing Kubernetes costs across AWS EKS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS. Learn rightsizing, autoscaling, spot instances, storage optimization, and cloud-specific cost strategies.
intermediate 30 min read

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: AWS EKS vs GKE vs AKS (2025)

A comprehensive guide to reducing Kubernetes costs across AWS EKS, Google GKE, and Azure AKS. Learn rightsizing, autoscaling, spot instances, storage optimization, and cloud-specific cost strategies.

Continue Your Journey

🔒 Compliance Automation

Apply Kubernetes governance to compliance frameworks →

🏗️ AWS Policy-as-Code Mastery

Extend to AWS-specific policy implementation →