Getting Started with DVARA: Drop-In OpenAI Compatibility in 5 Minutes
This post was published against 1.0.0 and referred to the gateway image as
ghcr.io/dvarahq/dvara/dvara-llm-gateway. The package was renamed to
ghcr.io/dvarahq/dvara-gateway in 1.7.0, so the original command no longer pulls anything. The
commands below have been updated to the current image and tag; the rest of the post is unchanged.
DVARA is an AI governance platform. It governs every LLM call your teams make — policy, PII, budgets, audit — under one control plane, and the LLM Gateway component is fully OpenAI-compatible so governance kicks in on the very first request. Every OpenAI SDK — Python, Node, Go, Java, Rust — lets you override the base URL. That single line of configuration is all it takes to route your LLM traffic through DVARA and unlock governance, multi-provider routing, and observability without touching your application code.