Open Policy Agent, The July Newsletter!

Peter O'Neill
Open Policy Agent
Published in
4 min readJul 6, 2022

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The OPA Monthly Newsletter

July Edition!

Summer is in full swing, conferences are back in action, and we hope everyone out there is having a great time.

OPA News and Articles

This has been a busy month in the OPA world, check out all of these articles that have come out!

Deploying Open Policy Agent (OPA) as a sidecar on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Play with Terraform Cloud Run Tasks (GA) and your own Open Policy Agent server

More blogs..

🚓 Kubernetes Security Policy Enforcement Using OPA

⚙️ Evaluating open policy agent in rust using wasm

🔐 Harden Amazon EKS in minutes with Styra DAS Free and OPA

🧑‍💻 Implement a policy and use it in CLI

OPA Talks

Data Protection Guardrails using Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Data Protection Guardrails using Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Catch the replay!

Deep-dive into Open Policy Agent + Conftest + GateKeeper | Noaa Barki | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022

Deep-dive into Open Policy Agent + Conftest + GateKeeper

Catch the replay!

OPA-tunities!

There is still time to show us all the new and unique ways you are using Open Policy Agent! Share your “New OPA-tunity” on Twitter and tag @OpenPolicyAgent and @Styrainc for a chance to be featured in an industry publication and win some awesome swag! You can also email your submission to kayla@styra.com.

Learn Open Policy Agent

Check out the three new courses from Styra Academy: “OPA Performance”, “Microservice Authorization with Styra” and “Terraform Validation with Styra”. The free online portal provides exclusive Open Policy Agent and Rego training from the creators of #OPA.

Styra Academy

Tools

OPA Alfred

Reasonably usable self-hosted version of OPA’s Playground

Rego Style Guide

The purpose of this style guide is to provide a collection of recommendations and best practices for authoring Rego. From Styra, the founders of Open Policy Agent (OPA), and some of the most experienced members of the community, we hope to share lessons learnt from authoring and reviewing hundreds of thousands of lines of Rego over the years.

Integrations

Integration of the Open Policy Agent with the SSI Kit

Ecosystem

Open Policy Agent v0.42.0

Calling all OPA End-Users!

OPA Summit is officially scheduled, are you ready to share your OPA development journey? Let me us know how you’re using OPA and we will help you craft a presentation. This event will be colocated at Kubecon in Detroit this October.

👉 Speak at OPA Summit 👈

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