
Run Your First Governed LLM Call with the OpenAI SDK
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Correction, 2026-08-28
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. Its LLM Gateway accepts the OpenAI API shape, so an existing SDK can use DVARA by changing the base URL. Your application keeps the same client while model requests gain policy, PII checks, budgets, audit, routing, and operational evidence.