awesome-opa
A curated list of awesome Open Policy Agent (OPA) related tools, frameworks and articles.
Contents
- Official Projects
- Policy Packages
- Language and Platform Integrations
- WebAssembly (WASM)
- Kubernetes
- Datasource Integrations
- IDE and Editor Integrations
- Infrastructure as Code
- Tools and Utilities
- Support and Community
- Recommended Reading
- Commercial Tools
Official projects
Repositories
- OPA - Open Policy Agent Github repository
- Gatekeeper - Kubernetes admission controller using OPA
- Conftest - Write tests against structured configuration data
Docs
- OPA - Official OPA documentation
- Styra Academy - Excellent OPA training courses
- Conftest - Conftest documentation
Blogs and Articles
- OPA - Official blog for the OPA project
Policy Packages
- Library - Community-owned policy library for OPA
- Policy Hub CLI - CLI tool that makes Rego policies searchable
- Rego policies - Rego policies from the the Red Hat community of practice
Language and Platform Integrations
Java
- Java - Generic Java client to query OPA's REST API
- Spring Security - OPA Spring Security Library
- Gradle - OPA plugin for Gradle
Python
- OPA Python client - Python client for OPA's REST API
- Flask OPA - OPA client for the Flask microframework
- Rego Python - Python package for interacting with Rego
Go
- Go Example API Authorization - Example API authorization using OPA
PHP
- OPA Library for PHP - OPA client, a PSR-15 authorization middleware and a PSR-15 bundle distributor middleware
.NET
- ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core authorization middleware
Node.js
- OPA Express - OPA client for the Express framework
Clojure
- Clojure - Middleware and utilities for app authorization with OPA in Clojure
Docker
- OPA Docker authorization - OPA to help policy-enable an existing services
- Docker Security Checker - OPA Rego policies for Dockerfile Security checks using Conftest (blog)
- Dockerfile security - A collection of OPA rules to statically analyze Dockerfiles to improve security
Containers
- Konveyor Forklift Validation Service - VM migration suitability assessment to avoid migrating VMs that are not fit for Kubevirt. Rules are applied on all the VMs of the source provider (VMware) during the initial inventory collection, then whenever a VM configuration changes.
WebAssembly (WASM)
- NPM module - a small SDK for using WebAssembly (wasm) compiled Open Policy Agent Rego policies
- Go SDK - a small Go library for using WebAssembly (wasm) compiled Open Policy Agent Rego policies
- .NET Core Library - .NET SDK for calling WASM-compiled OPA policies from .NET Core
Docs
- WASM - Official docs on WebAssembly for OPA
Kubernetes
- Konstraint - CLI tool for working with templates and constraints when using Gatekeeper
- Deprek8ion - A set of rego policies to monitor Kubernetes APIs deprecations
- Rego Policies - Gatekeeper policies collection
- Gatekeeper Policy Manager - Web UI for Gatekeeper policies
- Validating and Mutating Admission Control Example - Example validating and mutation admission controller
- Admission policy development - OPA Kubernetes validation and mutation testing environment
Blogs and Articles
- Policy Enabled Kubernetes with OPA - Guide on setting up OPA for kubernetes admission control
- Using OPA on EKS - Using Open Policy Agent on Amazon EKS
- OPA and Gatekeeper - Comparison between OPA and Gatekeeper with lots of useful information
- Kubernetes Authorization - Guide on using OPA for Kubernetes authorization
Datasource Integrations
- Kafka Authorizer - Kafka authorizer plugin with example policies
- Data Filtering on Spring Data - Data filtering for MongoDB and JPA using OPA
- Elasticsearch - OPA-Elasticsearch Data Filtering Example
- Strimzi - Kafka in kubernetes, with built-in support for OPA as authorizer
IDE and Editor Integrations
- VS Code plugin - Develop, test, debug, and analyze policies for OPA in VS Code
- IntelliJ plugin - OPA plugin for the IntelliJ IDE
- Emacs - Emacs Major mode for working with Rego
- Vim - Vim plugin for the Rego language, with support for syntax highlighting
- Atom - Syntax highlighting for the Atom editor
- CodeMirror - Rego mode and minimal key map for CodeMirror
- TextMate - Syntax highlighting for TextMate
- Sublime - Syntax highlighting for Sublime
- Nano - Syntax highlighting for Nano
Infrastructure as Code
- Regula - Evaluates Terraform code for potential security misconfigurations and compliance violations.
- Example Terraform policies - Example Terraform policies
- Terrascan - 500+ Policies written in OPA for security best practices.
- KICS - Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure or KICS scans IaC projects for security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfiguration. Currently working with Terraform projects, Kubernetes manifests, Dockerfiles, AWS CloudFormation Templates, and Ansible playbooks.
Infrastructure as Code Blogs and Articles
- Using OPA with Pulumi CrossGuard - Authoring Pulumi CrossGuard Policy with OPA
- AWS CDK with OPA - Realize Policy-as-Code with AWS Cloud Development Kit through Open Policy Agent
- Kubernetes Authorization - Kubernetes Authorization via Open Policy Agent
Tools and Utilities
- Fregot - Alternative REPL implementation for Rego
- OPA pre-commit - Pre-commit hooks for OPA/Rego/Conftest development
- Monitor OPA Gatekeeper - Monitoring implementation guide for OPA Gatekeeper (blog)
- Temporal reasoning with OPA - Examples for working with time in Rego
Support and Community
- Styra - Commercial support, and tools for managing OPA at scale, by the creators of OPA
- Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow OPA section
- OPA Slack - Opem Policy Agent Slack workspace
Recommended Reading
- Microservices Security in Action - Book on micorservices security, with dedicated section covering OPA. Freely available online.
- Fugue - 5 tips for using the Rego language for Open Policy Agent
Commercial Tools
- Styra DAS - Styra Declarative Authorization Service, from the creators of OPA
- Scalr - Collaboration and Automation for Terraform, backed by OPA
- Fairwinds Insights - Run OPA policies consistently across CI/CD, Admission Control, and an multi-cluster scanner