Get Secure, Streamlined, and Developer-Friendly GitOps

Nirmata, powered by the leading cloud-native policy engine Kyverno, provides a comprehensive solution to secure and streamline GitOps, empowering developers and ensuring robust governance:

• Policy as Code: Kyverno enables users like you to define flexible security, compliance, operations, and cost-control policies as Kubernetes resources.
• Shift-Down Security, Observability, and Developer Empowerment:
  • Nirmata CLI (nctl): Integrates with Git workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions) to scan pull requests (PRs) against established policies, providing early feedback and preventing issues before deployment.
  • Nirmata Pipeline Scanning: Use Nirmata’s nctl tool to scan Kubernetes, Terraform, Dockerfile, and any structured JSON data manifests in your CI/CD pipelines, detecting potential misconfigurations early in the development lifecycle.
  • Nirmata Dashboard: Offers cross-cluster visibility into policies, facilitating troubleshooting, and identifying areas for improvement.
• In-Cluster Enforcement: Kyverno validates and mutates resources to safeguard your desired state. You can prevent misconfigurations or detect and report them.
• Secure and Scalable Argo CD Deployment:
  • AWS Best Practices: Design a secure Argo CD environment using EKS, secrets management, and IAM roles with least-privilege principles.
  • Agent-Based Architecture: Leverage agent-based model for simplified deployment, enhanced scalability, and reduced attack surface.
• Support for Mission-Critical Operations: Benefit from the commercial support and enterprise features that Nirmata offers.

• Enhanced Security: Reduce risk through proactive policy enforcement, GitOps-integrated security checks, and pipeline scanning.
• Developer Agility and Streamlined Workflows: Rapidly deploy intelligent guardrails by implementing curated policies. Guide developers with self-service capabilities, actionable feedback within familiar Git workflows, and early detection of misconfigurations.
• Operational Efficiency: Optimize policy management, auditing, and remediation across your Kubernetes clusters. Leverage existing processes and workflows through integration with tools like Git, Slack, Jira, and more.
• Optimized Resource Utilization: Enforce resource limits and best practices to prevent uncontrolled costs. Restrict workloads from using expensive resources such as high-throughput storage or GPUs.
• Centralized Visibility and Control: Provide cloud architects with centralized policy management, cross-cluster visibility, and operational insights. Immediately detect changes to global policies and enable tamper prevention to ensure that policies are consistently applied.
• Flexibility and Scalability: Adapt to growing infrastructure complexity, evolving security standards, and multi-cloud or hybrid environments. Gain insights on the effectiveness of policies through aggregated reporting across clusters to allow focus on the most critical issues.

1. Install Argo CD: Deploy the core pillar of your GitOps infrastructure.
2. Deploy Nirmata: Integrate Nirmata for cross-cluster policy management, enforcement, and pipeline scanning.
3. Define Policies: Collaborate with the security, platform, and development teams to create Kyverno policies that align with your objectives.
4. Integrate nctl: Add nctl to CI/CD pipelines for policy checks and integrate nctl for pipeline scanning.
5. Monitor and Refine: Use Kyverno reports, Nirmata insights, and pipeline scanning results to improve your policies continuously.

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• Developers: Experience how nctl in your CI/CD pipeline improves your deployment process and catches errors early.
• Architects: Schedule a demo to see how Nirmata›s policy management and cross-cluster visibility can enhance your GitOps strategy.

Let Nirmata elevate your GitOps practices with policy-driven workflows, pipeline scanning, and seamless developer experiences.