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Best of 2025: Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open

Best of 2025: Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open

In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...
Alan Shimel | December 29, 2025 | Apple, kubernetes, OPA, Styra
LLMs & Kubernetes Configuration: Automating Hardening, Drift Detection and Policy Enforcement

LLMs & Kubernetes Configuration: Automating Hardening, Drift Detection and Policy Enforcement

Kubernetes misconfigurations remain the top security risk. AI copilots promise automated hardening, drift detection, and policy enforcement to make clusters safer ...
Alan Shimel | October 2, 2025 | admission controllers, AI copilots, AI in Kubernetes, cloud native security, cncf, drift detection, GitOps, KubeGuard, kubernetes, Kubernetes governance, kubernetes hardening, Kubernetes misconfiguration, Kubernetes security, Kyverno, large language models, LLMs, OPA, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, RBAC, YAML Jenga
Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open

Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open

In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...
Alan Shimel | September 3, 2025 | Apple, kubernetes, OPA, Styra
cloud-native software policy Styra Shifts Kubernetes Policy Management Left

Securing the Software Supply Chain For Policy-as-Code

Since emerging as a graduated CNCF project last year, the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project has been adopted in a wide variety of scenarios: Kubernetes admission control (gatekeeper), policy enforcement over configuration ...
Omri Gazitt | June 1, 2022 | container security, OPA, open policy agent, Security Policy as Code
principle Cloudera cloud-native IBM Cloud Pak

Survey Surfaces Spike in Cloud-Native App Development

The results of a survey of 350 IT decision-makers and 350 developers that work with cloud-native environments suggest the number of cloud-native applications deployed over the next 12 months will significantly increase ...
Mike Vizard | March 23, 2022 | application development, cloud-native applications, OPA, Styra
Open Policy Agent 101: A Beginner's Guide

Open Policy Agent 101: A Beginner’s Guide

More than 90% of applications will be cloud-native by 2023. As organizations transition from monolithic, on-premises environments to dynamic cloud-based ones, ensuring access control becomes more critical—and complex. That’s why I co-created ...
Tim Hinrichs | February 8, 2022 | cncf, kubernetes, OPA, open policy agent, policy management
LLMs, models, Cilium Rafay Systems OPA observability platform

Introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Recent decades have seen organizations adopt various types of software applications along the road to digitalization. Some of these applications face end users and others are used by internal operators. And, more ...
Bill Doerrfeld | October 28, 2021 | kubernetes, OPA, open policy agent, open source
Jetic Calico Kong Styra service mesh TriggerMesh Launches Open Source Knative Lambda Sources

Kong and Styra Bring OPA to Service Meshes

Kong, Inc. and Styra, Inc. announced today that have allied to bring the Open Policy Agent (OPA) used to achieve compliance-as-code in cloud-native environments to both the open source Kuma service mesh ...
Mike Vizard | October 5, 2021 | Kong, Kong Mesh, OPA, open policy agent, service mesh, Styra
CAST AI Kubernetes enterprises

Why Styra Open Sourced OPA

As founders and maintainers of the Open Policy Agent project (OPA), Teemu Koponen, Torin Sandall and I are pleased to be looking back at the project’s first three years and recognizing a ...
Tim Hinrichs | July 3, 2019 | container security, kubernetes, OPA, open source, Styra

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