TP3401
Introduction to OPA Training
This OPA training course gives attendees a deep understanding of both OPA and Rego so they can confidently implement and manage policies in various platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Course Details
Duration
3 days
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with programming concepts (e.g., variables, conditionals, loops)
- Basic understanding of JSON and data modeling
- Prior experience with policy enforcement and authorization is a plus but not required
- Some experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform is beneficial but not required
Skills Gained
- Install and configure OPA
- Write and evaluate Rego policies
- Use OPA to enforce authorization, validation, and other policies
- Integrate OPA with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Deploy and manage Rego policies in production
- Implement \"Policy as Code\" best practices
Course Outline
- Introduction to OPA and Rego
- Welcome and Overview
- Introductions, Objectives of the training
- Overview of the training agenda
- Explain the importance of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego in policy enforcement across various platforms
- Understanding OPA & Policy Enforcement
- Why policy enforcement is crucial in modern software development
- Introduction to OPA as a policy engine
- High-level architecture and components of OPA
- Overview of OPA's role in policy enforcement
- Hands-on Exercise: Installing OPA
- Rego Basics
- Overview of Rego as the policy language
- Rego syntax & data structures
- Scalars, composite values, variables, references, comprehensions
- Rules, Negation, Any/All, Non-boolean
- Writing and evaluating simple policies in Rego
- Understanding Rego's role in OPA policies
- Hands-on Exercise: Creating and testing policies
- Getting Started with OPA
- Installing OPA on various platforms.
- Running OPA in different modes (standalone, as a service, etc.)
- Interacting with the OPA REPL
- Writing and testing policies in OPA
- More Rego
- Modules, bundles, Keywords, operators
- Functions, metadata, schema
- Tooling: VSCode, Playground
- Hands-on Exercise: Using OPA from the command-line
- Session 5: Data Modeling in Rego
- Defining and working with data in Rego
- Structuring data for policy evaluation
- Writing complex policies to enforce authorization, validation, and more
- Best practices for writing and organizing Rego policies
- Hands-on Exercise: Data modeling
- Welcome and Overview
- Advanced OPA Use Cases and Integrations
- Advanced Rego Concepts
- Comprehensions and iterations
- Functions and built-in operators
- Error handling and fallbacks
- Demonstrations of complex Rego policy examples
- Hands-on Exercise: advanced Rego concepts
- Testing and Debugging Rego Policies
- Writing unit tests for Rego policies
- Debugging techniques using the Rego debugger
- Profiling and optimizing policies for performance
- Hands-on Exercise: Practical debugging exercises
- Integrating OPA with Docker
- How OPA can be used to enforce policies in Docker environments
- Writing policies to secure Docker containers
- Hands-on Exercise: Securing Docker images and containers with OPA
- Integrating OPA with Kubernetes
- Overview of OPA-GK integration with Kubernetes
- KubeWarden
- Policy enforcement in Kubernetes clusters
- Writing and deploying admission control policies in a Kubernetes cluster
- Hands-on Exercise: Securing Kubernetes deployments with OPA
- Integrating OPA with Terraform
- Introduction to OPA's integration with Terraform
- Writing policies for infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
- Hands-on Exercise: Terraform policy enforcement
- Policy as Code with Terraform
- Integrating OPA with Terraform to enforce infrastructure policies
- Writing and applying Terraform policies using Rego
- Ensuring compliance and security in Terraform deployments
- Advanced Rego Concepts
- Real-World Applications and Best Practices
- Policy Deployment and Management
- Strategies for deploying Rego policies in production
- Ecosystem tooling - conftest, WASM
- Versioning and policy management best practices
- Monitoring and auditing policy enforcement
- Hands-on Exercise: Policy Management
- Style Guide, Strict mode
- Use Cases and Case Studies
- Real-world use cases of OPA and Rego in various industries
- Case studies on policy enforcement success stories
- Discussion of common challenges and solutions
- Hands-on Exercise: OPA Use Case
- Policy as Code
- Implementing \"Policy as Code\" best practices
- Integrating OPA into CI/CD pipelines.
- Automating policy checks in development and deployment
- Hands-on Exercise: Automated Checks
- Hands-On Workshop and Q&A
- Hands-on Exercise: real-world scenarios using OPA and Rego
- Open discussion and Q&A session
- Recap and closing remarks
- Policy Deployment and Management
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