Authorize Better: Istio Traffic Policies with OPA, Styra DAS

Adam Sandor Adam is a solution architect at Styra, helping companies to adopt OPA and Styra DAS. He has been working in the cloud native space for the past six years, focusing on Kubernetes adoption and software delivery. In his free time, Adam is a dedicated DCS World pilot and happy cyclist roaming the cycle paths of the Netherlands. Cloud native tooling for authorization is an emerging trend poised to revolutionize the way we approach this oft-neglected part of our applications. Styra DAS offer. When services are connected using the Istio service mesh, all those sidecar proxies running Envoy are great places to make authorization decisions. All HTTP requests flow through them with metadata included about the source and destination services. The capabilities of Envoy are exposed by Istio in the form of the