Policies for the People: an OPA Amsterdam Meetup

Tue Apr 18 2023 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Miro | Amsterdam

Styra
Publisher/HostStyra
Policies for the People: an OPA Amsterdam Meetup

Kick off KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 week with the OPA community. Whether you’re attending the co-located events or looking to beat the jet lag Policies for the People is the place for you! 


We invite Amsterdam locals and conference attendees visiting the city to join the OPA community on April 18th for project updates end user talks drinks bites and networking. 


This event is for OPA enthusiasts to stay up to date on the latest trends and for new policy people to get introduced to the community. This is your chance to dive into Policy-as-Code! 


We'll also raffle off a pair of AirPods Pro during the social hour. *Must be present to win. 


Schedule: 

18:00 - 18:30: Doors Open/Food and Drinks Served 

18:30 - 18:50: Deploying an Application Layer in a Distributed System - How Miro uses OPA

18:50 - 19:10: Bankdata’s Solution to Streamlining Policy Enforcement with OPA and Styra DAS

19:10 - 19:30: Project Updates from the Co-founder of OPA 

19:30 - 20:30: Social Hour, More Drinks, and Raffle 


Thank you to our sponsors Styra the creators and maintainers of OPA and our hosts Miro.


Talks:

#1: Deploying an Application Layer in a Distributed System - How Miro uses OPA

Peter Brindisi Staff Engineer at Miro

Miro is a real-time collaboration tool with unique authorization requirements that are migrating from monolith to microservices. The migration requires rethinking how the application layer authorization works in a distributed system. Join this talk to learn how Miro is using OPA to solve their challenges.


#2: Bankdata’s Solution to Streamlining Policy Enforcement with OPA and Styra DAS

Anders Byskov Stigaard Senior Software Developer at Bankdata

Bankdata is implementing OPA for policy enforcement in their API landscape. This presentation will cover Bankdata’s open-sourced k8s controller for Styra DAS which helps teams onboard using Custom Resources. By using Custom Resources for self-service Bankdata ensures Configuration-as-Code with compliance controls and audit trails. Attendees will learn about Bankdata's approach to implementing OPA with Styra DAS as well as how to use the Styra-controller in their own infrastructure.


#3: OPA Project Updates 

Tim Hinrichs Co-founder of OPA and CTO at Styra

Open Policy Agent has seen a number of advancements over the last 50 versions. Join Tim Hinrichs the Co-founder of OPA and CTO of Styra as he discusses the recent additions to the policy language Rego and performance improvements to the OPA binary. He will also cover the upcoming road map and status of the current features in development.


Event Venue

Miro, Stadhouderskade 5, 1054 ES Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam

Tickets

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