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Version: 1.9

Open Policy Agent

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Open Policy Agent support has been introduced starting from these releases:

  • kwctl: v0.2.0
  • policy-server: v0.2.0

Open Policy Agent is a general purpose policy framework that uses the Rego language to write policies.

Introduction​

Rego policies work by receiving an input to evaluate, and produce an output as a response. In this sense, Open Policy Agent has no specific tooling for targeting writing policies for Kubernetes.

Specifically, policies in Open Policy Agent receive a JSON input and produce a JSON output. When the Open Policy Agent server is set up to receive admission review requests from Kubernetes, policies will receive a Kubernetes AdmissionReview object in JSON format with the object to evaluate, and they have to produce a valid AdmissionReview object in return with the evaluation results.

Compatibility with existing policies​

All policies can be compiled to the wasm target (WebAssembly) with the official opa CLI tool.

In terms of policy execution, you can read more about the Open Policy Agent built-in support that is implemented in Kubewarden.