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How to use OPA Policies with AWS CDK and GitHub Actions.
Infrastructure provisioning with governance
5 min readJun 23, 2025
OPA allows organizations to enforce policies across various systems, including APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure components.
I created a similar exercise using Terraform and Sentinel; you can review it by clicking here and try it out to see if the solution works best for you. I prefer Terraform and Sentinel, as they are easier to use and implement, but this implies, of course, some spending $$$$.
For this exercise, you need the AWS CLI and CDK already installed, a GitHub account to store the project, and to make the workflow.
I´m not going into too much detail about the AWS CDK process and setup. To stay focused on OPA policy validation and integration, here is a starting guide.
