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Nirmata Control Hub vs Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper

Nirmata Control Hub

nirmata.com

Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper

open-policy-agent.github.io

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FigureNirmata Control HubOpen Policy Agent Gatekeeper
Price from$1,250/moFree
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYes—
Open source—Yes
WebYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published42
Spec score · Kubernetes Security Software7.9 (#12)8.3 (#5)
PurposeNirmata Control Hub centralizes Kubernetes policy governance, compliance, image risk, exceptions, and remediation.Gatekeeper is a validating and mutating Kubernetes webhook that enforces CRD-based policies evaluated by Open Policy Agent.

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Nirmata Control Hub

  • Nirmata Enterprise Kyverno$1,250 a month
  • Nirmata Essentials$1,800 a month
  • Nirmata Advanced$4,500 a month
  • Nirmata EnterprisePriced on request

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Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper

  • GatekeeperFree
  • Open-source GatekeeperFree

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Nirmata Control Hub

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Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper

Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper is a free, open-source Kubernetes policy controller for Linux and self-hosted deployments. It runs as a validating and mutating webhook, enforcing CRD-based policies evaluated by Open Policy Agent. Validation constraints can deny requests, warn, run in dry-run mode or report violations without changing resources. Mutation policies can alter matching resources during admission before validation checks the final object. An audit function periodically evaluates existing cluster resources against constraints to identify pre-existing misconfigurations. The project includes an extensible policy library with parameterized examples, and provider connections to external data such as image registries and directory services. Named integrations or backed services include Azure Policy for Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine Policy Controller, Rancher, AWS EKS Blueprints and Alibaba Cloud. Installation options include prebuilt, development or locally built images and Helm. Gatekeeper requires Kubernetes resources introduced in version 1.16 and cluster-admin permissions for installation. The gator CLI is documented as beta from version 3.11.

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