Hexa Policy Orchestration
Hexa Policy Orchestration manages access policies across clouds, applications, data, and networks.
What Hexa Policy Orchestration is
Hexa Policy Orchestration manages access policies across clouds, applications, data, and networks. It translates IDQL policies into target systems’ native access policies and can convert native policies back into IDQL as part of discovery. Discovery inventories apps, data, policies, users, and roles across an identity fabric. Hexa names AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for multi-cloud policy unification, and lists integrations such as Okta, Azure AD, Snowflake, Databricks, OPA, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD tools. The architecture is described as agentless and proxyless, using cloud and identity APIs rather than proxies or local code. Policy orchestration occurs through administrative processes, not at runtime. For policy as code, Hexa supports versioning, rollback, automation, scripting, and scaling through configuration management. It can generate access and user reports across clouds for compliance. The open-source software is free and has a self-hosted option; its integration model is extensible for users building their own connections. Native integration with other CNCF tools is marked as coming soon.
Good
- Translates policies between IDQL and native formats
- Discovers apps, data, policies, users, and roles
- Supports AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Provides policy versioning and rollback
- Free and self-hosted
Watch out
- Native integration with other CNCF tools is coming soon
- Extensible model expects users to build integrations
Who it suits
Hexa may suit teams managing access policies across multiple clouds and applications, particularly those using policy-as-code workflows. Its free, self-hosted model may also suit teams prepared to build integrations.
Verdict
Hexa focuses on centralizing policy discovery and translation across systems without runtime orchestration. Teams should note that native integration with other CNCF tools is still marked as coming soon.
Plans and prices
From Hexa Policy Orchestration's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hexa Policy Orchestration | Free | Open-source software; extensible model to build your own integrations |
The facts
Each one read from Hexa Policy Orchestration's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API integration
- Hexa uses native cloud and identity APIs and says this insulates users from changing cloud APIs.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- The site describes Hexa as agentless and proxyless, with cloud-based policy orchestration that does not require proxy or local code.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Cloud support
- The site names AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as clouds whose policies Hexa can unify.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The site describes easy-to-read access and user reports generated across clouds as a compliance feature.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Discovery
- Policy discovery inventories apps, data, policies, users, and roles in an identity fabric.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site names Okta and Azure AD for web app identity, Snowflake and Databricks for cloud data, and OPA, Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD tools in its feature descriptions.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The site marks native integration with other CNCF tools as “coming soon” and describes OPA policy orchestration and Kubernetes policy orchestration in that section.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Policy as code
- Hexa works with CI/CD and DevOps tools to support policy versioning, rollback, automation, scripting, and scaling through configuration management.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Policy translation
- Hexa translates IDQL policies into target systems’ native access policies and can translate native policies back into IDQL during discovery.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Project status
- The site says the Hexa Policy Orchestration Gateway was submitted as a CNCF sandbox project.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Hexa manages and orchestrates access policies across clouds, applications, data, and networks.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Runtime overhead
- The site says policy orchestration happens through administrative processes rather than at runtime.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Zero Trust
- The site says universal access policy across disparate systems can help enable a Zero Trust architecture.checked 4 Oct 2026
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