Conftest, A Real Policy Evaluated
conftest on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one in the project's checksums.txt, and re-checked with sha256sum -c by the live test, which then writes a one-rule Rego v1 policy and a one-line document, runs conftest test and expects the denial in the report. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
conftest
Open Policy Agent conftest on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no conftest, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from github.com/open-policy-agent/conftest, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. conftest_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs conftest test --policy /tmp/conftest-p/policy.rego /tmp/conftest-p/pod.yaml and expects
"no pods" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
A real policy, evaluated. The live test writes a one-rule Rego
policy (deny contains msg if { input.kind == "Pod" ... }) and a
one-line YAML document, runs conftest test, and expects the denial
message in the report: the parser, the OPA engine and the reporter all
ran. Rego v1 syntax is what this OPA (1.20.2, embedded) accepts; the
pre-v1 deny[msg] { ... } form is a parse error now. The checksum file
also covers the rpm and deb packages; the role takes the tarball.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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