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