Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) catches up with Torin Sandall (@sometorin), co-creator of Open Policy Agent (OPA), the open-source, general-purpose policy engine. By focusing on demonstrating OPA’s value through case studies, targeted interviews, and word-of-mouth, Torin and the folks at Styra were able to grow OPA into the emerging standard for unified policy enforcement across the cloud-native stack.

In this episode we discuss:

When Netflix stumbled across OPA and delivered its “Cinderella moment”
Why OPA was designed to be developer-centric
The value of demonstrating OPA’s use cases to the industry
How one user created an RPG engine with OPA

Links:

Open Policy Agent
Styra
OpenStack
LinkerD
Hacker News
Kubernetes
KubeCon
OPA Gatekeeper
conftest
Corrupting the Open Policy Agent to Run My Games
Envoy
Styra Academy

People mentioned:

Tim Hinrichs (@tlhinrchs)
William Morgan (@wm)
Kevin Hoffman (@kevinhoffman)

Other episodes:

LinkerD on Contributor
Envoy on Contributor