How Reddit Built Authorization with OPA

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  • OPAL

    Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents (OPA, Cedar, ...) (by permitio)

  • 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.

  • cedar-agent

    Cedar-agent is the easiest way to deploy and run Cedar

  • 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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