OPAL Webinar March 2022
Full recording of the webinar about our open-source project OPAL.AC, including:
A short intro about authorization and its challenges
A live OPAL demo
Tips and use cases for using OPAL & OPA
An open floor for questions
0:00 - OPAL Webinar
4:27 - Intro to AuthZ
10:53 - OPA (Quick recap)
12:46 - OPAL Basics
14:35 - OPAL Pub/Sub, events, Kafka, and topics
16:20 - OPAL update model, speed, consistency, and data decoupling
17:30 - OPAL DataFetchers
18:46 - OPAL policy updates, Gitops
20:40 - OPAL+OPA vs XACML
21:20 - OPAL LIVE DEMO
32:22 - OPToggles (Open policy for frontend) - new OSS
34:58 - Q&A
35:12 - Auto-update behavior
37:28 - How to trigger data changes from a PostgreSQL database?
39:05 - How do you move a policy between environments?
40:52 - Will there be more policy storage services available in the future?
42:10 - Data sharding
44:42 - OPToggles: Are the features toggled per user?
46:10 - How can we test OPAL? Is it language-agnostic?
48:10 - Does OPAL do real-time querying of the data from sources?
49:40 - OPAL & Kafka documentation
51:13 - Why is there a distinction between policy updates and data updates?
53:40 - What is the difference between OPAL and Permit.io?