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Aug 20, 2025

Note from Teemu, Tim, and Torin to the Open Policy Agent community

Today we’re excited to announce that the creators of Open Policy Agent (along with many team members from Styra) have joined Apple to…

Note from Teemu, Tim, and Torin to the Open Policy Agent community

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Apr 7, 2020

Rego Design Principle #3: Optimize Performance Automatically

OPA aims to handle performance so that the policy author can focus on correctness

Rego Design Principle #3: Optimize Performance Automatically

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Mar 24, 2020

Rego Design Principle #2: Embrace hierarchical data

This is the second part of a blog series on the design principles behind Open Policy Agent’s (OPA’s) policy language Rego. Previously we…

Rego Design Principle #2: Embrace hierarchical data

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Mar 4, 2020

Rego design principle #1: Syntax should reflect real-world policies

Open Policy Agent expresses and enforces policies across the cloud-native stack. This series describes its language design principles.

Rego design principle #1: Syntax should reflect real-world policies

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Feb 8, 2019

Securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent

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Securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent

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Dec 14, 2017

OPA’s Full Stack Policy Language

The Open Policy Agent (OPA) has been used to policy-enable software across several different domains across several layers of the stack…

OPA’s Full Stack Policy Language

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Sep 7, 2017

Orderly versus Disorderly Policies

One of the age-old questions with policy languages is: does the order of policy statements matter?

Orderly versus Disorderly Policies

Tim Hinrichs

Tim Hinrichs

Declarative language software engineer. Co-creator of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. CTO and co-founder at Styra. https://www.styra.com/

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