If you’re familiar with the way modern application orchestrators work, a config file enables a developer to specify the “intent” of the application — the ideal operating conditions for the application, if they’re reasonable. And if you know about how security policy tends to work, then you know it’s based on rules that are triggered by specific events. If an event or two are triggered, meeting the criteria of the policy, then the policy responds by executing a set of instructions.

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