Using Rego for cloud configuration is awful. Use Really: policy-as-code built for humans.
When we started building Resourcely, the global configuration engine for cloud infrastructure, we slowly realized that the status quo of policy-as-code was broken. Writing our first Resourcely guardrails in Rego took hours to create and even more time to maintain. Writing new policies was extremely tedious and time-intensive, especially given the fact that we wanted to make them flexible. To help achieve our mission of making infrastructure more secure, it became evident that a new policy language would be needed that allowed policy to be written and maintained without headaches.
We created Really to be human-readable and writeable, to help with our development of Resourcely. When starting Resourcely we hired Rego experts, and set them loose on using Rego to create customizable guardrails at scale as part of the Resourcely platform: it wasn’t sustainable. So we spent 6+ months and millions of dollars to build policy language that could power a configuration engine of the future, and what we built is Really.
Really is an opinionated policy language built for articulating rules that deal with configuration settings, most commonly for infrastructure. Writing policy with Really takes our team 5-10% of the time compared to Rego, because it is easy to both read and write.
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