Open Policy Agent (OPA) provides a purpose-built policy language (Rego), a robust policy engine, comprehensive tooling, and over 100 integrations to facilitate the writing and enforcement of policies across the entire cloud-native ecosystem. OPA offers architectural flexibility to meet diverse performance and availability requirements, delivering a "policy as code" framework that enables organizations to manage policy as a first-class citizen. Its power, speed, reliability, and strong community adoption have established it as an industry standard, embraced by many notable enterprises. OPA handles authorization by decoupling policy decision-making from applications, allowing for uniform policy enforcement and improved application performance. Users define their setup and rules using the declarative Rego language, which OPA then applies to incoming requests. This approach saves developers the complexity of modifying entire stacks for single microservice changes. OPA integrates seamlessly with standard infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes, Envoy, Terraform, and AWS, making it a versatile tool for developers to create policy-as-code solutions regardless of their system architecture. Building on the core OPA, Enterprise OPA is designed to handle more data, faster, offering additional benefits. It includes datasource integrations for quick connections to Kafka, Okta, LDAP, and S3 without custom plugins, and supports SQL for easy implementation of ABAC or RBAC with MySQL or PostgreSQL data. Enterprise OPA also integrates with secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault for secure API access, and provides logging integrations to send authorization decision logs to Splunk, Kafka, and S3. A key feature is live impact analysis, allowing users to check policy effects on production before merging. Furthermore, Enterprise OPA significantly lowers infrastructure costs, utilizing 10x less memory and 40% less CPU compared to the open-source version.

Features & Benefits

• General Purpose Policy Enforcement
  • Deploys a single tool for consistent policy enforcement across the entire cloud-native stack.
• Cloud-Native Design
  • Built specifically to run efficiently in containerized, distributed, and cloud-native environments.
• Open Source Flexibility
  • Allows users to modify the source code to precisely fit their specific personal or enterprise requirements.
• Declarative Rego Language
  • Utilizes a high-level declarative language that simplifies the process of building and expressing complex policies.
• Centralized Policy Management
  • Enables the management and monitoring of distributed environments containing hundreds of OPA instances.
• Vibrant Community Ecosystem
  • Benefits from a passionate open-source community and a rich ecosystem of integrations and resources.
• Enterprise OPA: Datasource Integrations
  • Connects quickly to external data sources like Kafka, Okta, LDAP, and S3 to retrieve access control data without requiring custom plugins.
• Enterprise OPA: SQL Support
  • Facilitates easy implementation of Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) or Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) using data from MySQL or PostgreSQL compatible databases.
• Enterprise OPA: Secrets Manager Integration
  • Integrates with secrets managers such as HashiCorp Vault to securely access external APIs.
• Enterprise OPA: Logging Integrations
  • Sends authorization decision logs to various platforms including Splunk, Kafka, and S3 for auditing and analysis.
• Enterprise OPA: Live Impact Analysis
  • Allows users to check and understand the potential impact of new policies on production environments before they are merged.
• Enterprise OPA: Lower Infrastructure Costs
  • Significantly reduces cloud infrastructure expenses and ecological footprint by consuming 10x less memory and 40% less CPU than the open-source Open Policy Agent.