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title: "Dynamic policy management at scale"
description: "Programmatic policy management with Cerbos Hub: create, update and deploy authorization policies through an API rather than by hand."
canonical: "https://www.cerbos.dev/features-benefits-and-use-cases/dynamic-policies"
source: "https://www.cerbos.dev/features-benefits-and-use-cases/dynamic-policies"
---

# Dynamic policy management at scale

Automate your policy lifecycle: create, update, and deploy policies programmatically to save engineering hours and accelerate releases.

## Automate your policy management with Cerbos Hub

- **Policy-as-API** — Full programmatic CRUD operations on access control policies via a robust new API and updated SDKs.
- **Validated builds** — Every change is compiled and tested against your policy test suite before deployment.
- **Instant bundled deployment** — Updates are pushed to all PDPs immediately.
- **No custom infrastructure** — Skip building and scaling your own policy database, reloads, or test pipelines. Cerbos Hub handles it all.
- **Full traceability** — Track every API policy change, deployed bundle, and PDP decision with a complete audit log and version history.

## End-to-end programmatic policies

1. **Provision a Policy Store** — Set up a dedicated Policy Store in Cerbos Hub to manage policies programmatically via API.
2. **Integrate via API or SDKs** — Programmatically create, update, or delete policies in Policy Stores, triggered by any system or event.
3. **Auto-build, test, and deploy** — Each change is validated, tested, and deployed to all connected PDPs instantly.
4. **Audit everything** — Log every authorization action in versioned audit logs and track programmatic policy activity.

## The policy management platform for modern teams

- **Faster policy rollout** — Deliver validated policy changes across all environments in seconds.
- **Reduce operational overhead** — Offload policy storage, reloads, and testing to Cerbos Hub.
- **Improve reliability** — Deploy policy updates atomically and synchronously across all PDPs.

## Integrate with your stack in minutes

- SDKs
- Deployment models
- Integrations

## Master dynamic policy management

Demo: build dynamic policies and integrate with your systems.

[Watch the demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvfHTUFcwPM)

- **Webinar on managing permissions with code** — Programmatic policy management for complex systems.
- [Policy Store key concepts and best practices](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos-hub/policy-stores) — Policy store essentials for dynamic policies.
- [Documentation](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/cli/cerbosctl.html) — Docs on Cerbos CLI for programmatic policy management.

## Learn more

- [Advanced multi-tenant SaaS authorization with Cerbos](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/multi-tenant-saas-authorization-role-policies-and-scoped-resource-policies) — Guide
- [Authorization in developer workflows: best practices and tools](https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/authorization-in-workflows) — Guide