SOC 2 Controls as Code: How to Bake Compliance into Your CI/CD Pipeline (opens in new tab)

Most startups treat SOC 2 as a documentation exercise separate from engineering. It doesn't have to be. The controls auditors look for — change management, access control, vulnerability detection, monitoring; map almost directly to what a well-run CI/CD pipeline already does. This is a breakdown of how to make that connection explicit, so compliance becomes a byproduct of shipping software well rather than a fire drill every audit cycle.