There has been some exciting news for those of us who have been following the evolution of Open Policy Agent as an new technology for distributed policy enforcement. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that Open Policy Agent has demonstrated the maturing and adoption level to warrant graduation from its status as an incubating standard. This is a major accomplishment for the OPA team and community. At EmpowerID, we have been tracking its progress and integrating it into our external authorization offering.

CNCF Announcement: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/02/04/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-open-policy-agent-graduation/

The CNCF describes OPA as follows: "OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy enforcement across the entire stack. The project was accepted into the CNCF sandbox in April 2018 and one year later was promoted to incubation. More than 90 individuals from approximately 30 organizations contribute to OPA, and maintainers come from four organizations, including Google, Microsoft, VMware, and Styra."

I've included a short video below of EmpowerID leveraging OPA in conjunction with another exciting standard for authorization, User Managed Access 2.0 (UMA).