OPAL
cloud-custodian
OPAL | cloud-custodian | |
---|---|---|
34 | 32 | |
2,290 | 5,229 | |
1.7% | 0.6% | |
8.9 | 9.5 | |
9 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OPAL
-
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:\
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
🚀 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
-
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?
-
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
cloud-custodian
-
Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
> The best optimization is simply shutting things off
This is the way.
A similar idea has been bouncing around in my mind for a while now. An ideal, turnkey system would do the following:
- Execute via Lambda (serverless).
- Support automated startup and shutdown of various AWS resources on a schedule influenced by specially formatted tags.
- Enable resources to be brought back up out of schedule when demand dictates.
- Operate as a TCP/HTTP proxy that can delay clients so that a given service can be started when it is dormant or, even better, the service isn't serverless but you want it to be. This can't work for everything, but perhaps enough things such that the need to run always on services is reduced.
Cloud Custodian [1] can purportedly do some of this, but I've been reluctant to learn yet another YAML-based DSL to use it.
So this is my "make things designed to be always-on serverless instead" project and the work AWS has done to make Java apps function on Lambda keeps me thinking about the potential to take things that 1) have a relatively long startup time and 2) are designed to be long running service loops, and find a way to force them into the serverless execution model.
[1] https://cloudcustodian.io/
-
When have you screwed up, bad?
Goal was to clear up anything old and set us up to rotate keys in use. Why did I do it in the end of December? It was a quarterly goal and I learned to push those across the line if I wanted a good review. Great incentive, that one. I used Cloud Custodian for this. It has a terrible bug where the code says you'll be acting on days since the key was used but actually is reading days since it was created.
-
Open-Source tools for monitoring ML/AI usage- Recommendations?
What is wrong with https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian?
-
Automate deletion of aws ebs snapshots older than year
You can start reading about it here.
-
Optimizing cost on an app which is not used 24/7
Use a tool like this https://cloudcustodian.io/ to manage instance on/off hours or go fargate.
-
Going for the CCP with a Compliance background. Any insight on what direction to pursue in AWS?
Certs aside, there are some great compliance tools out there that you might want to become familiar with. Here is one that comes to mind (is open-source): https://cloudcustodian.io/
- What are some of the community's best recommendations and use cases for Cost Optimization and FinOps
-
EC2 start and stop via Lambda
I'd use a combination of Cloudcustodian for start/stop scheduling and Apprise for notifications.
-
Tag Enforcement
Cloud custodian is a good utility if config rules doesn’t satisfy your needs. It’s also cross platform.
-
26 AWS Security Best Practices to Adopt in Production
AWS Security with open source – Cloud Custodian is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tool. CSPM tools evaluate your cloud configuration and identify common configuration mistakes. They also monitor cloud logs to detect threats and configuration changes.
What are some alternatives?
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
vouch-proxy - an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
ScoutSuite - Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool
opa-kafka-plugin - Open Policy Agent (OPA) plug-in for Kafka authorization
steampipe - Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
gatekeeper - 🐊 Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes
ziti - The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti
fixinventory - Fix Inventory consolidates user, resource, and configuration data from your cloud environments into a unified, graph-based asset inventory.
opal - Fork of https://github.com/permitio/opal
cloudquery - The open source high performance ELT framework powered by Apache Arrow