Alternatives to Open Policy Agent
Evaluate authorization and configuration policies with a policy engine. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Open Policy Agent
Evaluate authorization and configuration policies with a policy engine.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Open Policy Agent as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Conftest
Writes tests against configuration files using Open Policy Agent rules.
Open Policy Agent is the Rego policy engine Conftest builds on, evaluating authorization and configuration policies across applications rather than focusing on testing configuration files.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Hadolint
Dockerfile linter that also checks the shell commands inside it.
actionlint
Find mistakes in GitHub Actions workflows before running them.
OpenTofu
Describe and manage infrastructure with versioned configuration files.
Terraform
An infrastructure-as-code command-line tool for creating, changing and versioning cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
