1. For a policy framework, a method for managing policies for a set of resources in a computing environment, the method comprising: storing an imported policy rule of a virtual machine computing environment as a first primitive policy, the first primitive policy including a policy data structure that includes a set of fields, the imported policy rule written in a first language, wherein a first field of the set of fields stores the imported policy rule in the first language and a second field of the set of fields stores the imported policy rule in a second language for the first primitive policy; generating a first composite policy associated with a resource of the virtual machine computing environment, wherein the first composite policy includes a first reference identifying the first primitive policy and a second reference identifying a second primitive policy or a second composite policy; and transmitting the first composite policy to a policy engine of the virtual machine computing environment responsible for managing the resource, the transmitting including transmitting the first primitive policy and the second primitive policy or the second composite policy, the policy engine to apply the first primitive policy by reading the primitive policy using the second language.