Terraform Enterprise with OPA: Reducing Toil and Improving Security

Explore a 16-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2023 that delves into the implementation of Terraform Enterprise with Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enhance security and reduce toil in a multi-tenant Terraform workspace. Learn how this approach decreased dev toil by over 35% and implemented safeguards against potentially catastrophic events. Discover the versatility of OPA beyond its common use as a security tool, and gain insights into its application for validations, checks, and restrictions on structured data. Follow the speaker's journey, from identifying the initial challenges to developing an MVP approach and implementing a new workflow. Benefit from a demonstration and expand your understanding of OPA's potential applications in platform engineering.

Intro
Agenda
What is Opa
Why we chose Opa
The situation in our hands
Our objectives
Existing controls
MVP approach
The journey
Our approach
Workflow
Demo
Outro