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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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OPAL
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OPA, Cedar, OpenFGA: Why are Policy Languages Trending Right Now?
Open Policy Administration Layer (OPAL) is an OSS project created to aid with Policy Engine management, which keeps them updated in real-time with data and policy updates. Supporting both OPA and AWS’ Cedar, OPAL offers two important features:\
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Top 5 Access Control Features You Should Implement in 2024
Another tool that can help you deploy a Policy as Code-based solution in 2024 is OPAL, the Open Policy Administration Layer. OPAL is an open-source project that provides a comprehensive policy-based service for applications. With one click, you can deploy a full architecture of a Git-based centralized policy store with decentralized policy engines running as a sidecar with your applications. OPAL also provides a unified architecture to sync all the data you need with the policy engines.
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How Reddit Built Authorization with OPA
Inspired by Braden’s post, this blog explores the journey of Reddit's team, focusing on their strategic decisions, the challenges they encountered, and the innovative solutions they crafted. Alongside Reddit's in-house efforts, we also examine OPAL, an open-source solution that aligns with the functionality of Reddit’s system, presenting an alternative approach for organizations seeking sophisticated authorization management solutions in the field of Ad Tech.
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OPAL: A Flexible, Self-Hosted Authorization Solution Inspired by Netflix's AuthZ Strategy
We reviewed how Netlfix used OPA with a a replication pattern; and decided to create a similar yet more extensible and event-driven solution - and so OPAL (Open Policy Administration Layer) was born - creating a scalable, zero-trust way to manage policy engines and their policy/data at scale.
- Policy as Code Open Source Project – Roadmap Questions
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🚀 Top 12 Open Source Auth Projects Every Developer Should Know 🔑
If you find this post helpful,please give OPAL a star on GitHub! Your support helps us make access control easier and motivates us to write more articles like this one.
- Opal – an open source cross-language policy administration tool
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Terraform Provider for Application-level Authorization
We are considering connecting this provider to our open-source tool OPAL. Are you using OPAL? Do you think such integration would be beneficial?
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Best Practices for Authorization in Microservices
One example of such an administration tool is OPAL, an open policy administration layer that works with OPA. OPAL tracks changes in external services and propagates the data to the OPA PDPs so the authorization requests can handle existing data and return faster results.
- Opal Now Supports AWS' New Cedar Policy Language Along with OPA
cedar-agent
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How Reddit Built Authorization with OPA
Open Policy Administration Layer (OPAL), is an open source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), and AWS' Cedar Agent that detects changes to both policy and policy data in real time and pushes live updates to those agents. Using Git repositories and GitOps as a method for rule storage, OPAL provides several benefits:
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Python Authorization Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
This is_authorize function is calling the Cedar-agent, an engine that can evaluate the policy and return the decision. The function is generic and can be used with any policy model.
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Authorization and Cedar: A New Way to Manage Permissions - Part II
There is also open source project called cedar-agent to make life easier when working with Cedar policies.
- cedar-agent
- Show HN: Run AWS Cedar Policy Like OPA
- Show HN: Cedar Policy Agent – Run AWS Cedar Like OPA
- Cedar Policy Language Is Now Open Source
What are some alternatives?
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Kubewarden - Kubewarden is a policy engine for Kubernetes. It helps with keeping your Kubernetes clusters secure and compliant. Kubewarden policies can be written using regular programming languages or Domain Specific Languages (DSL) sugh as Rego. Policies are compiled into WebAssembly modules that are then distributed using traditional container registries.
vouch-proxy - an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
cedar-authorization-service - The Cedar Authorization Service is a lightweight, standalone server developed in Rust that is designed to evaluate and enforce access control policies written in Cedar, an open-source policy language developed by AWS.
cloud-custodian - Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
deprecated-api-versions-policy - A Kubewarden Policy that detects usage of deprecated and dropped Kubernetes resources
opa-kafka-plugin - Open Policy Agent (OPA) plug-in for Kafka authorization
cloudformation-guard - Guard offers a policy-as-code domain-specific language (DSL) to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules. Take this survey to provide feedback about cfn-guard: https://amazonmr.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpyzpfoYGGuuUl0
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Opal - Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript
ziti - The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti
opal - Fork of https://github.com/permitio/opal