OPA Everywhere! Exploring New Opportunities in Policy Evaluation

Explore the versatility of Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this conference talk from NDC Security 2023. Delve into the tool's success as a general-purpose policy engine, examining its various applications from Kubernetes admission control to application authorization and infrastructure guardrails. Learn about the flexible policy engine's capability to make decisions on diverse data types and operate in various environments. Discover the process of compiling Rego into the new low-level Intermediate Representation (IR) format, and investigate the opportunities and challenges of moving the policy decision point into applications. Gain insights into the evaluation plan format and potential simple evaluator implementations. Examine the possibility of running OPA in any environment and explore new frontiers in policy evaluation.

OPA everywhere! Exploring new opportunities in policy evaluation - Anders Eknert - NDC Security 2023