Detailed Information

The jEAP Governance Service is a compliance monitoring solution designed to help development teams and administrators maintain adherence to organizational policies and best practices across microservices and systems within the jEAP ecosystem. A service instance can be created by depending on this template,then adding specific configuration and extending it with plugin implementations.

This service acts as a centralized compliance dashboard and policy enforcement framework, providing visibility into compliance status across all managed services. A scheduled evaluation process regularly checks services against defined rules and reports on compliance violations.

• Developer Feedback: Teams receive clear information on whether their services comply with organizational policies
• Flexible Rule Management: Administrators can temporarily deactivate individual rules for specific systems or services when exceptions are needed
• Extensible Rules Engine: New compliance rules can be easily added through a plugin mechanism, allowing teams to provide their own custom rules

The service follows a modular, extensible architecture:

• Data Source Integration: Automatically collects compliance-relevant information from various sources including the Arch Repo service, Deployment Log service, Prometheus/Grafana metrics, and project-specific data providers
• Scheduled Evaluation: A cron job periodically evaluates all services against configured rules
• Plugin-Based Configuration: Teams can configure the service and provide custom rules through a flexible plugin mechanism

• Ensuring microservices meet requirements (e.g., authentication, compliance with requirements from architecture, ..)
• Validating deployment configurations against established standards
• Monitoring technical debt and deprecated dependency usage
• Enforcing documentation and metadata requirements
• Tracking observability and monitoring coverage

The Governance Service helps maintain high-quality, compliant services across the jEAP platform while providing the flexibility teams need to manage exceptions and evolve policies over time.