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What is OPA?

OPA (Open Policy Agent) is an open-source, general-purpose policy engine that unifies policy enforcement across different technologies and infrastructure. It decouples policy decision-making from policy enforcement. OPA uses a high-level declarative language called Rego to define policies. It is commonly used for authorization in microservices, Kubernetes admission control, infrastructure as code validation, and other policy-based decision making scenarios.

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What other technologies are related to OPA?

OPA Competitor Technologies

Kyverno

Kyverno is a policy engine designed specifically for Kubernetes, providing an alternative to OPA for Kubernetes policy management.

mentioned alongside OPA in 26% (155) of relevant job posts

Hashicorp Sentinel

Sentinel is a policy-as-code framework, similar to OPA, and can be used for policy enforcement in infrastructure-as-code environments.

mentioned alongside OPA in 40% (68) of relevant job posts

XACML

XACML is a policy language and architecture for access control. It provides an alternative approach to policy definition and enforcement compared to OPA.

mentioned alongside OPA in 8% (75) of relevant job posts

OPA Complementary Technologies

Rego

Rego is the policy language used by OPA. It's essential for defining policies enforced by OPA.

mentioned alongside OPA in 46% (227) of relevant job posts

Checkov

Checkov is a static code analysis tool for infrastructure-as-code. OPA can be used to enforce policies during runtime, while Checkov checks during development.

mentioned alongside OPA in 23% (76) of relevant job posts

Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper uses OPA as its policy engine for Kubernetes admission control. It constrains Kubernetes resources.

mentioned alongside OPA in 12% (60) of relevant job posts