Open Policy Agent: Policy-based control for cloud native environments

As enterprises transition to containerized deployments and microservices architectures, the need for comprehensive and dynamic policy enforcement becomes paramount. The Open Policy Agent (OPA) emerges as an industry-standard solution, serving as a universal policy engine across the stack.

In this presentation we will discuss:

1. What is OPA?

Delve deep into the fundamentals of the Open Policy Agent, understanding its architecture, core components, and its role in the DevOps ecosystem.

2. OPA in the Enterprise Landscape:

Explore how OPA is revolutionizing policy enforcement in modern enterprise systems and why it matters.

3. Hands-on with OPA:

We will do a live demo of OPA's capabilities. By leveraging OPA with Istio and Kubernetes, we'll illustrate the process of setting up a basic Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system.

Agenda
6:00 - 6:30PM Food and Announcements
6:30 - 7:20 PM Presentation by Thomas Bell
7:20 - 7:30 PM Q & A

Special thanks to our sponsors:

• Facilities provided by DeepSee.ai (https://deepsee.ai/)
• Food provided by SLC DevOps Days (https://slcdevopsdays.org)

Please RSVP if you will be attending in person to help us get an accurate count for food.

This is an in-person meeting at deepsee.ai facilities (first floor - building says Acima on the outside in Draper).

We will show the presentation live via zoom and post the recording to our YouTube channel afterwards (https://slcdevopsdays.org/youtube-channel/).

Here is the zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/98056432054