An Introduction to Policy as Code (Sentinel)
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8 min readNov 9, 2019
Sentinel is HashiCorp’s framework for the implementation of Policy as Code (PaC). It integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and allows teams/organizations to be proactive from a compliance/risk standpoint. Sentinel allows for granular, logic-based policy decisions that reads information from external sources to derive a decision.