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Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive

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Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 17:30· Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2· [security]

speakers

name:Charlie Egan
links:none on file
name:Anders Eknert
website:https://www.eknert.com

resources

video:https://youtu.be/XtA-NKoJDaI
slides:none on file

summary

Open Policy Agent is a general-purpose policy engine that takes JSON in and JSON out, evaluates Rego policies and writes decisions to a decision log for audit. Recent work improves the Regal linter (100 rules, ~15,000 lines of Rego) by avoiding allocations, interning numbers and speeding hot paths so linting drops from ~2–3s to ~1s on large suites — touted as OPA v1.0 performance gains. Gatekeeper adds validating admission beta, gator CLI and export features, and the project now has 10,000 GitHub stars.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Introduction to Open Policy Agent
  2. 3:53Policy as code with OPA
  3. 8:29OPA Gatekeeper in Kubernetes
  4. 15:40OPA performance & Regal
  5. 24:56Q&A

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