Policy-Driven Engineering: Automating Compliance Across DevOps Pipelines
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V6I1P111Keywords:
Policy-as-Code, DevOps, Compliance Automation, CI/CD Pipelines, Regulatory Compliance, Secure SDLC, Governance, Risk Management, Infrastructure as Code, Compliance as CodeAbstract
Especially as teams run code into production numerous times daily, ensuring compliance in current fast-changing DevOps systems is like attempting to follow a rolling train. Conventional compliance assessments generally follow development depending on manual assessments, isolated audits, and retroactive remedial action. Policy-driven engineering transforms compliance from a reactive need into an automated, proactive component of the software development process. Policy-driven engineering is really policy-as-code that is, openly embedding organizational, security, and regulatory directions into code and infrastructure. CI/CD pipelines enable teams to automatically check every build, test, and deployment for compliance prior to its entering into use. This method lowers human error and speeds delivery, thus enabling adherence to regulatory regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, or SOC 2 without so stifling innovation even as it provides real-time compliance and transparency. As they make this change, teams must thus manage policy versioning, integration complexity, and the necessity of cross-functional collaboration among developers, compliance authorities, and security teams. The benefits are noteworthy, too; automated compliance enables businesses to scale securely, lower audit fatigue, and inspire confidence among both internal and external stakeholders. This paper investigates the value of policy-driven engineering, its benefits over more conventional techniques, and the required tools and tactics for including compliance automation from the outset into DevOps operations
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