Styra DAS Expands to Manage OPA in Any Cloud-Native System

As part of Styra’s vision for unified authorization, we founded the Open Policy Agent project (OPA) to make policy-based control of the cloud-native stack accessible to everyone. OPA has now grown to become the de facto standard for authorization across the stack, leading to a large part of the community looking for ways to manage the OPA policy-as-code lifecycle. Since Kubernetes Admission Control is really only a small part of the nearly infinite applications of OPA, we wanted to provide users a fast path to value that also reduces the burden of managing OPA policies, while providing a way to manage, monitor, audit and generally see the impact of policy as code for any desired use case. 

With the new addition of custom systems in Styra DAS, we now offer a faster path to value for use cases outside of Kubernetes Admission Control. This allows developers a no-cost, self-service way to experience the benefits of decoupled policy as code for unified authorization across the stack. Styra DAS now provides the exact same OPA control plane as has been proven out in our largest global OPA deployments, so OPA users can quickly and easily see the impact of policy as code, for Kubernetes Admission control and now any desired use case. The addition of custom systems in Styra DAS provides a faster path to value for all OPA authorization use cases across cloud applications and infrastructure, including: service mesh, app authorization, SSH, config authorization/validation, conftest and more. 

Styra DAS now gives Developers, DevOps, DevSecOps and Platform teams a turnkey control plane for Rego policies without having to build out a custom control plane in order to manage OPA. With these new updates, Styra DAS lets you:

We hope custom systems for DAS can help accelerate OPA implementation and reduce the time and resources spent on decoupling policy from underlying software and infrastructure.

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