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Fugue announced support for Open Policy Agent (OPA), an open source general-purpose policy engine and language for cloud infrastructure.

Fugue is leveraging OPA and Rego, OPA's declarative policy language, for cloud infrastructure policy-as-code to provide customers with maximum flexibility when implementing their custom enterprise policies. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted OPA as an incubation-level hosted project in April 2019.

While much of the focus of OPA has been on developing access policies for Kubernetes, Fugue is driving the adoption of OPA to address a wider variety of use cases for securing cloud environments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, including the application of common compliance frameworks to full cloud infrastructure stacks. The Fugue team has developed tools and enhancements to improve OPA's developer experience. Fugue has provided many of these enhancements to the OPA open source project, and will continue to do so.

Fugue has also added support to its product for customer-defined rules written using OPA and Rego. This sets Fugue apart from cloud infrastructure policy management solutions that rely on proprietary and inflexible rule languages that lock-in customers and are incompatible with other policy languages used elsewhere in the enterprise. Fugue also uses OPA to provide out-of-the-box support for commonly used compliance frameworks including CIS Foundations Benchmarks, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, PCI, and SOC 2.  

"Fugue has been developing policy-as-code solutions for some time, and now we're offering an easy-to-use, open source solution for writing policies for cloud infrastructure," said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue.  "Our customers can use the same open language for defining their cloud infrastructure policies in Fugue that they are using for other enterprise policy needs. This eliminates the need to learn other vendors' proprietary, inflexible policy languages."

- Fugue's custom rules capabilities that leverage OPA enable users to:

- Build and manage custom, user-defined cloud infrastructure rules in OPA Rego via the Fugue API, CLI, and web interface

- Validate and test custom rules while they are being written with helpful errors that save time

- Continuously validate and report on compliance for custom rules and out-of-the-box policy frameworks

"Fugue is running millions of security rule evaluations every day using OPA, so we've put a lot of work into improving performance and developer tooling and will be contributing all of that back to the open source community," said Josh Stella, co-founder and CTO of Fugue. "OPA is a significant development for policy-as-code, and Fugue is fully committed to supporting and contributing to it."

Custom rules with Fugue using OPA is available now for all Fugue customers.