October Newsletter
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The OPA Monthly Newsletter
October Edition!
October is here, the leaves are changing colors, and weather is starting to become cool.
The OPA community will be at KubeCon NA, so don’t forget to register for Cloud Native Policy Day with OPA!
Community Updates
The OPA community now has over 300 GitHub contributors! This is such an amazing accomplish, keep up the amazing work everyone!
Our friends over at Postman connected with us to setup an OPA webpage to help our community members explore the OPA API. Take a look!
Ecosystem Updates
Open Policy Agent v0.45.0
- Feature: Improved Decision Logging with nd_builtin_cache
- New builtin: regex.replace for regex-based search/replace on strings
- Optimization: object.union_n builtin implementation to use a more efficient merge algorithm
Community Tools
Capua
A Kafka Policy engine that will help you validate your resources and artefact creations with style.
Videos 🎥
rq: Datalog for your shell pipelines
rq brings the full power of Rego, a Datalog dialect created for Open Policy Agent (OPA) to your shell pipelines. It allows you to easily transform and query data in a variety of commonly used formats using Rego expressions, which allows for concise, general-purpose, performant transformations. This talk discusses the background of OPA and Rego, explains some simple Rego expressions, and demonstrates a few of the capabilities of rq.
Speaker: Charles Daniels, Backend Software Engineer, Styra Inc.
Blogs
This has been a busy month of writing for the OPA community. Check out all the new blogs.
How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation
Deploying Gatekeeper policies as OCI artifacts, the GitOps way
Rego — The unified policy language for better policy management
Creating Custom OPA Policies with Azure Policy
Use OPA Gatekeeper to prohibit specific IAM users from creating resources in a specific Namespace
[Copy and paste OK] Procedure for linking Open Policy Agent with Python
Events 📆
Cloud Native Policy Day with OPA, Oct 25th
Cloud Native Policy Day with OPA hosted by Styra, the creators of Open Policy Agent, will bring together the OPA community for a day of sharing and discussing policy-as-code best practices, key learnings and creative use cases for OPA. Project maintainers will be on hand to field 1:1 questions and provide live-coding demos — and you’ll see proven real-world implementations from various OPA adopters during each of the sessions.
Whether you’re looking to start down your policy journey, or are an OPA adopter with Rego skills to share, join the community for sharing, learning and socializing.
Attendees are invited to come for the full day with lunch provided or to stop by just for the sessions that interest them most. To register for the event, add Cloud Native Policy Day with OPA from the co-located event list selections when registering for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 or add it to your existing registration by selecting “modify” on your confirmation page or clicking the “modify” link in your confirmation email.
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