This guide will teach you how to setup the opal server & client as a series of python packages using the cli. Upon updates, each client fetches data directly (from the source) to load it into its managed policy engine instance. Opal client can be configured to maintain a local backup file, enabling to restore the policy store to its last known state after a restart, even when server is unavailable. Now that opal is live, we can use opal server to push updates to opal clients in real time We have a separate tutorial on how to trigger updates. If you would like opal to execute opa for you, and act as a watchdog for opa, we need to make sure it can find the opa program and make it executable
To do this, please follow the guidance here, but below is an example of what needs to be added. Opa is solely responsible for enforcing and evaluating authorization queries.
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