2 years ago

Category: Data, Kubernetes, Terraform

Cloud native tooling for authorization is an emerging trend poised to revolutionize the way we approach this oft-neglected part of our applications. In this article I will look more closely at the latter use case and try to answer the question of what OPA and its commercial management tool Styra DAS offer. When services are connected using the Istio service mesh, all those sidecar proxies running Envoy are great places to make authorization decisions.

This is the reason Styra, the creators of OPA, created the Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS).

The protocol connecting OPA to Styra DAS is part of the open source project, which means you can use a cloud bucket to store your policy bundles and to upload decision logs.