OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the end-to-end authorization platform that envisions a world where developers never have to build permissions again. 

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In this episode we discuss:

• History of Permit and OPAL

• The benefits of an open-foundation model rather than open-core

• RBAC vs ABAC vs ReBAC

• Why developers would prefer to not have to deal with authorization

• Or’s own podcast, Command+Shift+Left

Links:

• OPAL

• Permit

• Command+Shift+Left

• Terraform

People mentioned:

• Asaf Cohen (@asafchn)

• Filip Grebowski (@developerfilip)

Other episodes:

• Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall

• Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin