32 min

Wasm & Open Policy Agent with Styra – Ep 7 – WebAssembly Unleashed DevCentral

    • Technology

In this episode our hosts dive into what’s going on in the WebAssembly community following Wasm.IO and KubeCon before they are joined by Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall of Styra to discuss Open Policy Agent (OPA) and WebAssembly. Listen in to find out updates regarding the WebAssembly registry, get a rundown on Open Policy Agent and what led it to Wasm, the WebAssembly integration challenges OPA’s faced, interesting applications of OPA and Wasm, and so much more!

**SPECIAL NOTE: Since this podcast recording, Linux Foundation has announced that WasmCon is being moved to November.

Dive into our previous episode on Warg with Danny Macovei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH66SCfAw1I&list=PLyqga7AXMtPNV1zr2aTWEegep0FQU6Qvj&index=5

Chapters:
1:19 – What’s going on in the world of WebAssembly?
2:16 – Developments from Wasm.IO and KubeCon
3:10 – WA.dev and the Warg Protocol
5:42 –What is Open Policy Agent and why is it important?
6:44 – OPA implications for end users
10:51 – State of OPA community
12:40 – What led OPA to WebAssembly
17:00 – From a modular approach, why run Rego policies in other language contexts?
19:52 – How do you compile OPA down to Wasm?
21:42 – How self-contained is OPA and the Wasm models?
25:31 – Integration challenges with Wasm
30:12 – Styra and what it adds on top of Open Policy Agent

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

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👋 Aubrey King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aubreyking | https://twitter.com/aubreykingf5

In this episode our hosts dive into what’s going on in the WebAssembly community following Wasm.IO and KubeCon before they are joined by Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall of Styra to discuss Open Policy Agent (OPA) and WebAssembly. Listen in to find out updates regarding the WebAssembly registry, get a rundown on Open Policy Agent and what led it to Wasm, the WebAssembly integration challenges OPA’s faced, interesting applications of OPA and Wasm, and so much more!

**SPECIAL NOTE: Since this podcast recording, Linux Foundation has announced that WasmCon is being moved to November.

Dive into our previous episode on Warg with Danny Macovei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH66SCfAw1I&list=PLyqga7AXMtPNV1zr2aTWEegep0FQU6Qvj&index=5

Chapters:
1:19 – What’s going on in the world of WebAssembly?
2:16 – Developments from Wasm.IO and KubeCon
3:10 – WA.dev and the Warg Protocol
5:42 –What is Open Policy Agent and why is it important?
6:44 – OPA implications for end users
10:51 – State of OPA community
12:40 – What led OPA to WebAssembly
17:00 – From a modular approach, why run Rego policies in other language contexts?
19:52 – How do you compile OPA down to Wasm?
21:42 – How self-contained is OPA and the Wasm models?
25:31 – Integration challenges with Wasm
30:12 – Styra and what it adds on top of Open Policy Agent

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

⬇️⬇️⬇️ JOIN THE COMMUNITY! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

DevCentral is an online community of technical peers dedicated to learning, exchanging ideas, and solving problems - together.

Find all our platform links ⬇️ and follow our Community Evangelists! 👋

➡️ DEVCENTRAL: https://community.f5.com
➡️ YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/devcentral
➡️ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/f5-devcentral/
➡️ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/devcentral

Your Community Evangelists:
👋 Jason Rahm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrahm/ | https://twitter.com/jasonrahm
👋 Buu Lam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/buulam/ | https://twitter.com/buulam
👋 Aubrey King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aubreyking | https://twitter.com/aubreykingf5

32 min

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