How do I enforce policy-as-code for Ansible playbooks using OPA and Conftest?

Enforcing policy-as-code for Ansible playbooks using OPA (Open Policy Agent) and Conftest allows you to ensure that your infrastructure as code aligns with organizational policies. You can define policies in Rego, OPA's policy language, and use Conftest to validate your Ansible playbooks against these policies before deployment.

keywords: Ansible, OPA, Conftest, policy-as-code, infrastructure as code
description: This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to enforce policies on Ansible playbooks using OPA and Conftest, ensuring compliance and governance in your DevOps practices.
# Sample Rego policy for OPA to enforce Ansible playbook rules package ansible.policy violation[{"msg": msg}] { input.kind == "playbook" not input.hosts[_] == "localhost" msg := "Ansible playbooks must not run on localhost." } # Example Conftest command to test the Ansible playbook # Run this command in your terminal conftest test your_playbook.yml

keywords: Ansible OPA Conftest policy-as-code infrastructure as code