In this Kongcast episode, Tim Hinrichs, co-founder, and CTO of Styra, dives into how the Open Policy Agent (OPA) helps solve authorization policy problems across the stack.

Download OPA: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/#running-opa
Download Kuma: https://kuma.io/install/latest/
Try Styra DAS for Free: https://www.styra.com/das-free
Request a Kong Mesh Demo: https://konghq.com/request-demo-kong-mesh/

Subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes and see which guests are coming on the show next: https://bit.ly/3zQV71e

▬▬▬▬▬▬ TIMECODES ▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 Kongcast Show Intro

0:28 Welcome, Tim!

0:39 Cloud Native Authorization Connectivity Challenges

2:16 What Challenges Has Cloud Native Caused for Authorization?

3:37 What Is OPA?

7:30 3 Best Practices for Writing Authorization Policies

9:23 How OPA and API Gateway Helps Move Auth to Cloud Native from Legacy Apps

11:40 What Has Styra Built on Top of OPA?

13:22 Demo: Styra DAS

20:44 Thanks for Joining, Tim!

21:35 Kongcast Show Outro

▬▬▬▬▬▬ ABOUT KONGCAST ▬▬▬▬▬▬
Hosted by @Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ KONG COMMUNITY ▬▬▬▬▬▬
⭐ https://github.com/Kong/kong
🐦 https://twitter.com/thekonginc
🌎 https://konghq.com/community/
🍻 https://www.meetup.com/pro/kong
❓ ️https://discuss.konghq.com/
💯 https://konghq.com/kong-champions/

#OPA #APIs #Authorization #Kongcast