Open Policy Agent, The June Newsletter!

Peter O'Neill
Open Policy Agent
Published in
3 min readJun 14, 2022

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The OPA Monthly Newsletter

June Edition!

June has arrived and summer is starting! The OPA team is wishing you a festive summer!

Kubecon EU Updates

Owlina is now a part of the OPA family!

Announced at Kubecon EU Keynote, Owlina is the new mascot for the Open Policy Agent project. She will have many adventures with Phippy and friends in the future, and we are just excited to have her onboard.

The OPA maintainers talk sold out the house!

With over 1,100 registrants we had a completely full audience at the OPA maintainers talk. But don’t worry the replay is live on YouTube watch it today!

Catch the replay!

Twitter highlights

We have had quite the month, check out what community members are saying on Twitter!

OPA-tunities!

Show us all the new and unique ways you are using Open Policy Agent! Share your “New OPA-tunity” on Twitter and tag @OpenPolicyAgent and @Styrainc for a chance to be featured in an industry publication and win some really cool swag! We can’t wait to see all the cool new ways people are using OPA!

Tools

OPACTL

opactl executes your own Rego (OPA) policy as CLI command.

RBAC-POLICE

Retrieve the RBAC permissions of serviceAccounts, pods and nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, and evaluate them using policies written in Rego.

sanshell

sanssh is a simple CLI with a friendly API for dumping debugging state and interacting with a remote machine. It also includes a set of convenient but perhaps-less-friendly subcommands to address the raw SansShell API endpoints.

Ecosystem Updates

OPA v0.41.0

NPM OPA WASM v1.7.0

Kube-mgmt v7.0.0

Kube-mgmt v6.0.0

OPA News and Articles

AUTHORIZATION CONTROL USING OPENPOLICY AGENT AND GOOGLE GROUPS

How to avoid Security Group changes corruption in terraform by applying Open Policy Agents (OPA)?

OPA Summit

We are looking for speakers for the OPA Summit in October! This is going to be a collection of OPA users telling their stories about getting OPA adopted and deployed to production. If you have an OPA story to share now’s your chance!

👉 Speak at OPA Summit 👈

OPA User Survey 2022

Filling out this survey helps the OPA community grow each year, please take a few minutes to fill it out. By doing so you’d be helping out the community, and you are eligible for a free t-shirt!

👕 Fill out the survey ✅

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