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Policy as Code - CI/CD Glossary Definition

Policy as code expresses governance and security rules (such as "no public S3 buckets") in machine-readable policies that a pipeline evaluates automatically to allow or block changes.

Policy as code expresses governance and security rules (such as "no public S3 buckets") in machine-readable policies that a pipeline evaluates automatically to allow or block changes.

Policy as code shifts compliance left: violations are caught in CI on the plan, not in a manual review afterward.

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