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Policies & Guardrails

Governance by design: enforce security and compliance with policy-as-code without blocking teams.

Argy’s stance is simple: governance must be embedded into the delivery and operations workflows.

When governance is an external review step, it becomes a bottleneck. When it is codified, it becomes a platform capability.

What is a guardrail?

A guardrail is any rule that:

  • prevents unsafe changes,
  • enforces compliance requirements,
  • makes decisions explicit.

Examples:

  • mandatory tags/labels,
  • approved network patterns,
  • surfacing and enforcing security audit results (SAST, SCA, container scanning) as deployment evidence,
  • surfacing and enforcing compliance audit results (GDPR, DORA, CIS benchmarks) as delivery requirements,
  • image provenance rules,
  • encryption requirements,
  • least-privilege defaults.

Policy-as-Code (where it fits)

Policy-as-code should validate:

  • IaC plans,
  • Kubernetes manifests,
  • module configuration parameters.

Common engines include OPA/Rego or Kyverno. The important part is not the engine but the integration point: policies are evaluated as part of the golden path.

Enforcement modes

In practice, organizations need progressive rollout:

  • Warn: surface violations early.
  • Fail: block non-compliant changes.
  • Exception: time-bound, explicit, auditable.

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