We are thrilled to announce native support of Kong Mesh, Istio and Kuma within Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS), enabling users to combine stellar service mesh solutions with the only authorization management platform that supports trusted cloud architecture. Styra DAS allows teams to manage policies across a broad spectrum of systems, like Kubernetes, microservices, public cloud, and more.
Authorization is a critical part of developing any application. When building an app, at some point you will want to control the data and views that a user or system has access to, and one way you can do that is by writing authorization directly into your app. However, over time this can be challenging to manage because when you make changes to your authorization policies you also need to make changes to the application.
One of the most critical aspects of managing policy-as-code at scale is ensuring safety when deploying policy changes to production workloads. A misconfiguration or errant rule can lead to consequences such as overly permissive systems, service outages, and other forms of application or platform issues.
It has been one year since I joined Styra as the first European hire, and what a year it has been! Not only have we significantly grown our customer footprint with enterprises such as Zalando, European Patent Office and Extenda Retail, but the EMEA team has been growing at a rapid pace across engineering, sales and customer success and open source! I thought I’d share some takeaways on the industry / market from my interactions with customers and the community.
It’s been a great year so far for the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project and community. OPA achieved graduated status in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in February and is quickly nearing 100 million downloads! With all this growth, we were excited to see the results of the second annual Open Policy Agent user survey. As I mentioned in my post on the Open Policy Agent blog, we survey the community to help better steer the project's long-term roadmap in the right direction.
