open-policy-agent/opa
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #332 of 525 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 63%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 415 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +37 stars on Mar 26, coincided with release v1.15.0.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a general-purpose, open source policy engine for unified, context-aware policy enforcement across software stacks.
- Enables decoupling policy decisions from application code using a high-level declarative language called Rego for flexible, centralized policy management.
- Use for enforcing fine-grained API authorization policies in microservices architectures to control access dynamically.
- Use for validating infrastructure-as-code configurations in Kubernetes or Terraform to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
- Use for implementing custom access control and compliance checks in cloud-native environments integrating with Docker, SSH, or CI/CD pipelines.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy enforcement across the entire stack.
OPA is proud to be a graduated project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) landscape. For details read the CNCF announcement.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+354 stars over 87 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +8 on Aug 27.
Forks
1.7K+62
Open issues
293-55
Compared with peers in Cloud
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 25, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 2.8K | +920 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| hashicorp/terraform | 50.1K | +0 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| aws/aws-cdk | 13.0K | +0 | 75 | 4 days ago |
| open-policy-agent/opa | 12.4K | +0 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| kedacore/keda | 10.7K | +0 | 75 | 31 days ago |
| kubernetes-sigs/headlamp | 7.5K | +0 | 75 | 9 days ago |
| Category median | 10.7K | +0 | 75 | — |
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