Authorization with Open Policy Agent (OPA)

​Join us live with Tyler Schade (Engineering Lead @ GEICO) as we go into the power of Open Policy Agent (OPA) for modern authorization solutions.
Learn how to design, implement, and scale effective policy decision-making with OPA and the Rego language, tailored for distributed systems and microservices.

​We’ll discuss:

• ​What is OPA? How does it work?

• ​The Rego policy language

• ​The three pillars of authorization policy decision-making

• ​Separating schema from data using loop functions

• ​Syncing data with OPA and OPAL

• ​Access control models (RBAC, ReBAC, etc.) in OPA

• ​Distributed and microservices architectures with OPA

• ​Scaling policies and organizing file structures

• ​Performance with large data volumes

• ​Data consistency and update frequency

• ​Stateful vs. stateless OPA: restart considerations

• ​Utilizing external Zanzibar/Graph databases with OPA

• ​CI/CD and SDLC integration

• ​OPA Policy configuration for non-technical stakeholders

• ​Live Q&A