OPA is a general-purpose policy engine that let’s you offload decisions from your service. To do so, OPA needs to have access to policies and data that it can use to make decisions.
Prior to v0.8, OPA only exposed low-level HTTP APIs that let you push policy and data into the engine. With v0.8, we’re excited to provide new management features in OPA which make it easier to distribute policies (and data) as well as monitor the health of your agents.
Bundle API
To simplify distribution of policy and data, you can now configure OPA to download “bundles” from remote HTTP endpoints. Bundles are simply gzipped tarballs containing Rego and JSON files. When you configure the Bundle feature, OPA will periodically call out to the remote HTTP and GET the named bundle:
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