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soenkeliebau committed Sep 14, 2020
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=== Open Policy Agent

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/[Open Policy Agent] is a universal authorization engine that has become popular in the Kubernetes (but not exclusively) environment lately.
OPA defines ACLs in an abstract language called https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/policy-language/[Rego] which allows keeping
OPA defines ACLs in an abstract language called https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/policy-language/[Rego] which allows keeping authorization logic in the ACL definition, instead of source code.
This gives a much higher degree of abstraction and thus flexibility than having to hard-code the logic for every application.



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