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Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 8 comments · first 2018-05-19 · latest 2025-12-19

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  1. I would like to put in an honourable mention for Open Policy Agent: https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa
    comment by dersch · 2025-12-19 · in Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024)
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    Show HN: Infrabase: Natural language rules engine to manage your cloud account
    story by iacguy · 2025-06-13 · 0 comments
  3. …, more specifically it's Rego language which is also implemented in go https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/tree/main/rego
    comment by burakemir · 2022-11-27 · in Mangle, a programming language for deductive database programming
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    List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
    story by ohad1282 · 2022-08-28 · 3 comments
  5. The policy CLI builds upon the ideas and direction described in https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/1413 (May 2019) and attempts to provide a concrete solution for a standard workflow for Policy As Code creation, publishing,…
    comment by gertd · 2022-02-09 · in Show HN: Open Policy Registry: a Docker-inspired workflow for OPA policies
  6. …"real world" production scenarios. For example until recently Ory Keto used OPA and had that issue https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/1443 . It seems to me that Oso although is based in Opa and Zanzibar ideas, it may have some…
    comment by xtracto · 2021-09-15 · in Why Authorization Is Hard
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    Open Policy Agent v0.29.1 released
    story by ekampf1 · 2021-05-28 · 0 comments
  8. …. The other option is to add functionality to the language itself, e.g. https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/2538 Oso seems to support this by ‘registering’ objects in the host language, e.g. https://docs.osohq.com/using/
    comment by charlieegan3 · 2020-12-16 · in Oso – open-source policy engine for authorization in Rust
  9. See also https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (lower-level building-block) and https://github.com/ory/keto (built on OPA)
    comment by adamfeldman · 2019-06-13 · in Evolving to Enterprise-Grade Permissions
  10. There's also Open Policy Agent (OPA) https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa
    comment by perlgeek · 2019-06-08 · in Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System
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    Opa – An open-source, general-purpose policy engine
    story by tosh · 2018-05-21 · 39 comments
  12. If you want a Go implementation, look at OPA https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa - designed for authorization but quite general.
    comment by justincormack · 2018-05-19 · in A relatively simple Datalog engine