policy-aona
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Open Policy Agent | Go | |
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policy-aona
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Aserto, the developer API for permissions and RBAC, is open to all
RBAC is simple to get started with, but indeed pretty limited. We tend to use the term because it's more recognizable than ABAC or ReBAC.
The {subject,relation,object} tuples do provide a convenient way to express an ACL-based system.
Most real-world systems we've encountered tend to have a combination of user-centric and resource-centric aspects to them. With an ABAC-style policy, you can easily enforce relationships like "user X can edit objects in project Y, and can read objects in project Z". In fact, the Aserto policy for Aserto [1] uses this style of authorization, without going "full-tuple".
In fact, for many use-cases, the prospect of creating an ACL for every resource feels like a management nightmare for the folks we've talked to, and they typically have a "resource group" construct or hierarchy that they want to treat the same from an authorization perspective.
Finally, in addition to the user model, Aserto has a resource model, and we're exploring evolving it more towards the tuple approach.
[1] https://github.com/aserto-dev/policy-aona
spicedb
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How do you manage transactions in Go? Do we really need to use one transaction for each request?
Have you taken a look at SpiceDB? The Authzed blog has a few posts that are useful to improving your understanding -- I can think of two: New Enemies and Writing relationships to SpiceDB.
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How to start a Go project in 2023
Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:
- https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter
- https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows
- https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools
- https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing
- https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options
- https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()
- https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt
- https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library
- https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging
- https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework
FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers
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Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept
At AuthZed, we think about this topic regularly while developing SpiceDB[0], except we believe feature flags are a subset of authorization. I'd disagree with the author that permissions are always long-lived -- authorization can also be ephemeral (and often that's how it's most secure) or dependent on run-time context[1]. What's more, using SpiceDB, we can often collapse checking for authorization and feature-flags into a single round-trip by defining a permission that can additionally require a feature flag (e.g. permission = admin & has_feature_flag).
It's a little silly, but lots of folks ask for the moon when it comes to performance for authorization because it's critical to every request, but then go on and sprinkle a dozen feature flag RPCs each adding more and more latency. We think you should be able to have both.
What we're excited about is use cases beyond feature flags and authorization: we've also seen some folks use SpiceDB as an update graph or others as a dependency graph.
[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
[1]: https://authzed.com/blog/caveats/
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Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had
It scaled well compared to a naive graph abstraction implemented outside the database, but when performance wasn't great, it REALLY wasn't great. We ended up throwing it out in later versions to try and get more consistent performance.
I've since worked on SpiceDB[1] which takes the traditional design approach for graph databases and simply treating Postgres as triple-store and that scales far better. IME, if you need a graph, you probably want to use a database optimized for graph access patterns. Most general-purpose graph databases are just bags of optimizations for common traversals.
[0]: https://github.com/quay/clair
[1]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
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Writing a Kubernetes Operator
I get the sentiment. We held off on building an operator until we felt there was actually value in doing so (for the most part, Deployments cover the operational needs pretty well).
Migrations can be run in containers (and they are, even with the operator), but it's actually a lot of work to run them at the right time, only once, with the right flags, in the right order, waiting for SpiceDB to reach a specific spot in a phased migrations, etc.
Moving from v1.13.0 to v1.14.0 of SpiceDB requires a multi-phase migration to avoid downtime[0], as could any phased migration for any stateful workload. The operator will walk you through them correctly, without intervention. Users who aren't running on Kubernetes or aren't using the operator often have problems running these steps correctly.
The value is in this automation, but also in the API interface itself. RDS is just some automation and an API on top of EC2, and I think RDS has value over running postgres on EC2 myself directly.
As for helm charts, this is just my opinion, but I don't think they're a good way to distribute software to end users. The interface for a helm chart becomes polluted over time in the same way that most operator APIs become polluted over time, as more and more configuration is pulled up to the top. I think helm is better suited to managing configuration you write yourself to deploy on your own clusters (I realize I'm in the minority here).
[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/releases/tag/v1.14.0
- AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
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Solution for ReBAC authz using attributes?
To my understanding, the only ReBAC system that supports dynamic attributes is SpiceDB.
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The Annotated Google Zanzibar Paper
If you're curious to see a Postgres-based implementation, SpiceDB has a Postgres driver: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/internal/datast...
- We built an open source authorization service based on Google Zanzibar
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One Million Database Connections
Interesting, for SpiceDB[0], one place we've struggled with MySQL is preemptively establishing connections in the pool so that it's always full. PGX[1] has been fantastic for Postgres and CockroachDB, but I haven't found something with enough control for MySQL.
[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb
What are some alternatives?
peoplefinder - PeopleFinder demo
Ory Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
casbin - An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Golang: https://discord.gg/S5UjpzGZjN
realworld - "The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
zanzibar-pg - Pure PL/pgSQL implemenation of the Zanzibar API
oso - Oso is a batteries-included framework for building authorization in your application.
openfga - A high performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar
dgraph - The high-performance database for modern applications
access-controller - A highly scalable open-source implementation of an access-control engine inspired by Google Zanzibar-"Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System"
permify - Open source authorization service inspired by Google Zanzibar to build fine-grained and scalable authorization systems.
awayto - Awayto is a curated development platform, producing great value with minimal investment. With all the ways there are to reach a solution, it's important to understand the landscape of tools to use.