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title: Compliance Operator overview
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# Compliance Operator overview {#co-overview}

The OpenShift Container Platform Compliance Operator assists users by automating the inspection of numerous technical implementations and compares those against certain aspects of industry standards, benchmarks, and baselines.

The Compliance Operator is not an auditor. To be compliant or certified under these various standards, you need to engage an authorized auditor such as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), Joint Authorization Board (JAB), or other industry recognized regulatory authority to assess your environment.

The Compliance Operator makes recommendations based on generally available information and practices regarding such standards and may assist with remediations, but actual compliance is your responsibility. You are required to work with an authorized auditor to achieve compliance with a standard. For more information on compliance support for all Red Hat products, see "Product Compliance".

## Compliance Operator concepts {#co-overview-operator-concepts_co-overview}

Learn about the Compliance Operator and the custom resource definitions it uses.

[Understanding the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-concepts/compliance-operator-understanding#compliance-operator-understanding)

[Understanding the Custom Resource Definitions](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-concepts/compliance-operator-crd#custom-resource-definitions)

## Compliance Operator management {#co-overview-operator-mgmt_co-overview}

You can install, update, manage, and uninstall the Compliance Operator on your cluster.

[Installing the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-management/compliance-operator-installation#compliance-operator-installation)

[Updating the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-management/compliance-operator-updating#compliance-operator-updating)

[Managing the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-management/compliance-operator-manage#compliance-operator-understanding)

[Uninstalling the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-management/compliance-operator-uninstallation#compliance-operator-uninstallation)

## Compliance Operator scan management {#co-overview-operator-scan-mgmt_co-overview}

You can configure, run, tailor, and troubleshoot Compliance Operator scans, and retrieve and manage their results.

[Supported compliance profiles](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-supported-profiles#compliance-operator-supported-profiles)

[Compliance Operator scans](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-scans#compliance-operator-scans)

[Tailoring the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-tailor#compliance-operator-tailor)

[Retrieving Compliance Operator raw results](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-raw-results#compliance-operator-raw-results)

[Managing Compliance Operator remediation](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-remediation#compliance-operator-remediation)

[Performing advanced Compliance Operator tasks](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-advanced#compliance-operator-advanced)

[Troubleshooting the Compliance Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/compliance-operator-troubleshooting#compliance-operator-troubleshooting)

[Using the oc-compliance plugin](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/co-scans/oc-compliance-plug-in-using#using-oc-compliance-plug-in)

**Additional resources**
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- [Compliance Operator release notes](/openshift-docs-markdown/security/compliance_operator/compliance-operator-release-notes#compliance-operator-release-notes)
- [Product Compliance](https://access.redhat.com/compliance)