What is OPAL?
It is an open-source project for administrating authorization and access control. It responds to policy and data changes, and pushes live updates to your agents, bringing open policy up to the speed needed by live applications.
OPAL is a tool in the Continuous Deployment category of a tech stack.
Key Features
RealtimeStatelessExtensibleOPA powered
OPAL Pros & Cons
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OPAL Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OPAL?
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Dotenv
It is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
