Intro: Open Policy Agent

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Open Policy Agent is a general-purpose policy engine that decouples policy decision from enforcement, implemented as a Go library or a host-local daemon and used in production at Netflix, Intuit and Chef. It ships with the Rego language, a bundle service API for hitless policy/data updates, decision logging and test tooling, a ~20 MB binary footprint, and a linear-time fragment that answers API auth queries in under 100 microseconds in many cases.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:55Project overview
3. 2:37Motivation for OPA
4. 6:20Unified policy enforcement
5. 8:39General-purpose policy engine
6. 10:41Design principles
7. 12:36Rego language
8. 13:26Deployment models
9. 15:53Management and tooling
10. 18:10Implementation demo
11. 25:58Integrations
12. 28:19Production use cases
13. 31:21Q&A session

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