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Ryan Cartwright for Spacelift

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Spacelift Policy-as-code Introduction

Policy-as-code is the idea of expressing rules using a high-level programming language and treating them as you normally treat code, which includes version control as well as continuous integration and deployment. This approach extends the infrastructure-as-code approach to also cover the rules governing this infrastructure, and the platform that manages it.

Spacelift as a development platform is built around this concept and allows defining policies that involve various decision points in the application. User-defined policies can decide:

You can refer to this section to learn more about commonalities and differences between these policies, or to the dedicated article about each policy to dive deep into its details.

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