Fine Grained News - November 2024

Welcome to the November edition of Fine Grained News! As we enter the final stretch of 2024, there are exciting developments in the OpenFGA to share.

🌟 We hit 3,000 stars on the OpenFGA repo!: 🌟 Because of this great community, we've just this incredible milestone! Thank you so much for all the support you've shown this project. Let's keep the momentum going! If you haven't yet, we'd greatly appreciate you starring the repo to help push us toward 4,000 stars and grow our amazing community!

Just Shipped

v1.8.1: This release focuses on performance and monitoring enhancements. It introduces two new flags for better control over check operations, optimizes performance for TTU relationships with set operations, and expands metrics tracking with duration measurements. Additionally, deduplication logic has been added to the BatchCheck API, along with new logging fields for authz calls. Read more in the Read more in the Changelog...

For more about the new OPENFGA_CHECK_ITERATOR_TTL and OPENFGA_CHECK_CACHE_LIMIT flags, run ./openfga run --help

Batch Check API: Introduced in v1.8.0, the BatchCheck API significantly reduces network latency by batching authorization checks in a single request. With v1.8.1, deduplication logic increasing its efficiency further. v1.8.0 also added support for Contextual Tuples in the Expand API, time-based filtering in the ReadChanges API, and additional performance improvements. Read more in the Changelog or the BatchCheck API docs.

Coming Up

SDK Updates: We will be updating the SDKs next to take advantage of the new BatchCheck, starting with Python and JavaScript. If you want to see an SDK prioritized, let us know!

Check out our roadmap to see what we're working on. Feature requests and ideas can be shared in GitHub Discussions.

Community Highlights

OpenFGA at KubeCon: In November, Andres Aguiar represented OpenFGA at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. OpenFGA had a kiosk in the Project Pavilion, where Andres delivered a lightning talk and participated in The Policy Engines Showdown with other authorization solution providers. Watch the panel discussion...

Andres Aguiar representing OpenFGA at KubeCon

OpenFGA in Italy: Andrea Chiarelli presented Authorize in the Cloud with OpenFGA at Cloud Day 2024 in Milan.

Andrea Chiarelli presenting at Cloud Day 2024

OpenFGA Offsite: The team that works hard to bring you OpenFGA met in Chicago this November for a fun and productive offsite, diving deep into our vision, developer needs, and the roadmap ahead.

The OpenFGA team in Chicago

New Modeling Demos Available!: Learn how to model fine-grained authorization in OpenFGA's domain-specific language step-by-step with our new demo video series! Starting with the basics and gradually adding complexity, this playlist is your guide to mastering OpenFGA modeling.

Monthly Community Meeting: Join our in depth monthly community discussions every second Thursday at 11 AM Eastern Time (US). Check out our meeting details for more information.

November's highlights included:

• Sebastian Döll from ZEISS showcasing their Terraform/OpenFGA integration.
• Justin Cohen demonstrating the new Batch Check functionality.

Can't make it? Catch up on our latest recording or browse previous sessions on our YouTube channel.

Blogs and Videos for AuthZ Fans:

• Granting TTL based permissions in OpenFGA: Implement TTL-based permissions in OpenFGA for time-limited access control. Read more on Medium...

• Overcoming Security Challenges in Protecting Shared Generative AI Environments: Explore solutions for ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient multi-tenancy in generative AI environments. Read more on Medium...

• Fine-Grained Authorization for Backstage using OpenFGA: Learn how OpenFGA enables dynamic fine-grained authorization in Backstage through ReBAC models and seamless policy updates. See the webinar on YouTube...

New Adopters

• Are you using OpenFGA in production? Join our growing community of adopters! Add your company to our ADOPTERS.md file with a quick PR.

• Do you offer OpenFGA implementation services? Get listed in our Implementation Services directory. Note: Listings are community-contributed and not officially endorsed by the OpenFGA project.

Announcements

OpenFGA Ranked #5 in CNCF Project Contributions! Thanks to our amazing community, OpenFGA soared to become the 5th most active CNCF project during Hacktoberfest in October! Your contributions made this possible, and hope to continue the engagement!

Ready to join our community of contributors? We have opportunities for every skill level:

• Start with our Good First Issues for beginner-friendly tasks.
• Take on more complex challenges in our Issue queue.
• Follow our Contribution Guide to get started.

CNCF Projects Ranked by Commits during Hacktoberfest

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See You Next Month:

Fine Grained News is published every month. If you have any feedback, want to share your OpenFGA story, or have a noteworthy update, please let us know on any of our community channels or at [email protected].