Compliance as Code: Automating SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS with Open Policy Agent Compliance does not have to mean spreadsheets, manual audits, and screenshot evidence. Compliance as code translates regulatory requirements into automated policy checks that run continuously against your infrastructure. Instead of proving you were compliant during an annual audit, you prove you are compliant every time code is deployed. This approach is faster, more reliable, and produces better evidence than manual processes. Open Policy Agent (OPA) is the most widely adopted policy engine for this purpose. OPA uses Rego, a declarative query language, to express policies that evaluate JSON input and return allow/deny decisions. In Kubernetes, OPA Gatekeeper enforces admission control policies - block containers running as root, require resource limits on all pods, enforce naming conventions, and prevent privileged containers.…