Eric Anderson (@ericmander) catches up with Torin Sandall (@sometorin), co-creator of Open Policy Agent (OPA), the open-source, general-purpose policy engine. By focusing on demonstrating OPA’s value through case studies, targeted interviews, and word-of-mouth, Torin and the folks at Styra were able to grow OPA into the emerging standard for unified policy enforcement across the cloud-native stack.
In this episode we discuss:
- When Netflix stumbled across OPA and delivered its “Cinderella moment”
- Why OPA was designed to be developer-centric
- The value of demonstrating OPA’s use cases to the industry
- How one user created an RPG engine with OPA
Links:
- Open Policy Agent
- Styra
- OpenStack
- LinkerD
- Hacker News
- Kubernetes
- KubeCon
- OPA Gatekeeper
- conftest
- Corrupting the Open Policy Agent to Run My Games
- Envoy
- Styra Academy
People mentioned:
- Tim Hinrichs (@tlhinrchs)
- William Morgan (@wm)
- Kevin Hoffman (@kevinhoffman)
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