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Rego💣

Rego is Open Policy Agent’s native query language that inspects the data published by services and users. Its creation was influenced by Datalog, a declarative logic programming query language used for deductive databases. Rego goes well beyond Datalog to support structured document models. Its queries help define policies identify data violations. Rego can be a steep learning curve for users.

Some benefits of Rego are:

  • Simplistic reading and writing of policies.
  • Powerful support of referenced nested documents.
  • Queries that accurate and unambiguous.
  • Declarative

Best Practices💣

Best practices tips for Rego are:

  • Rules are evaluated as logical AND statements.
  • The order of rule statements does not matter.
  • “true” and defined are usually synonymous. “false” is also usually synonymous with undefined.
  • Rule evaluation short-circuits on reaching a statement that evaluates to undefined.

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Last update: 2021-06-18 by Michael McLeroy