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Fine Grained News - January 2024

· 4 min read
Andres Aguiar
Andres Aguiar
Product Manager

Welcome to the 2nd edition of Fine Grained News!

Team News​

The OpenFGA team got bigger, and we met in person in Toronto for the first time! We got to know each other better, helped new team members to get familiar with the project, hacked some code, had some fun with ax throwing, and loved Toronto's weather!

OpenFGA Team

KubeCon Europe 2024!​

We got two presentations accepted in KubeCon Europe!

We'll also have a Project Kiosk, so if you plan to attend let us know and we can schedule some time together!

OpenFGA ⚡️Enlightning Session!​

Our own Raghd Hamzeh will join Whitney Lee in a Tanzu ⚡️Enlightning session on February 8th at 9am PT.

Join their Youtube stream here.

Visual Studio Code Integration Enhancements​

We keep investing in improving our VS Code experience. The video below shows how, in addition to validating the model, we can validate the tuple content and the tests.

We are identifying:

  • Invalid object types, user types, and relations when defining tuples.
  • Invalid object types, user types, and relations when defining tests.
  • User id or object id that was not included in any tuple in check tests.

This helps authoring/testing models, making the whole process less error prone and more fun!

VS Code

CLI improvements​

We love the FGA CLI and we keep making it even better.

We had a few of contributions from new team members and the community :).

  • You can now import tuples from a CSV file. We supported JSON/YAML, but if you are exporting data from a database, producing to CSV is way simpler.
  • You can take a .fga.yaml file with a model and tuples, and get it imported in OpenFGA.
  • Added support for specifying an external tuple_file in .fga.yaml files.
  • Added support for specifying a continuation_token when calling fga tuple changes.
  • Support for configuring OAuth scopes to authenticate to OIDC servers.

Check the updated documentation in our CLI repository

Thanks to Yann D'Isanto for all your help on this!

OpenFGA v1.4.3​

We just shipped OpenFGA v1.4.3, with performance improvements and one security issue fixed. We recommend everyone to upgrade to the latest release.

SDK Improvements​

New releases with bug fixes and improvements:

Thanks again to Yann D'Isanto for your help on the Java SDK!

Language Improvements​

The DSL language now has better support for comments and mixed operator support, where you can use parentheses to group expressions when defining relations:

DSL improvements

It's available in the VS Code extension, the CLI and the Playground.

Github Actions​

We shipped a couple of Github Actions that help you deploy FGA models, and run model tests as part of your CI/CD build. Find them here.

What's Next? Check our RFCs!​

We've been discussing with the OpenFGA community a couple of RFCs that we are planning to implement in the next few weeks:

Please take a look at them and let us know what you think!

OpenFGA Community​

We have a very welcoming community, and we'd love to have you there! You can join us in different ways:

See you next month!​

Fine Grained News are published every month, after the OpenFGA community meeting. If you have any feedback, you want to share your OpenFGA story, or know about something that you think is worth mentioning, please let us know!

Fine Grained News - December 2023

· 4 min read
Andres Aguiar
Andres Aguiar
Product Manager

Hi Everyone!

We've been publishing a monthly internal newsletter we called Fine Grained News since the beginning on 2023, and we just thought it would be a good idea to share it with the community. Yeah, we are slow thinkers!

You can expect to find here a summary of what we've been up to, what we are planning to do, and some other random stuff we think you might find interesting.

Team News​

We always start our Monthly Community Meetings presenting the team. If you attended the last one, you've seen that the size of the team has grown quite a bit! We are pretty excited about the impact it will have in OpenFGA and the authorization space in general.

Behavior Driven Development with OpenFGA​

In our last Community Meeting, the Agicap team (Pauline and Yann) demoed how they are using OpenFGA to implement Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in their authorization system.

The screenshot below might be enough to understand what they are doing, but if you want to know more, you can watch the full presentation here.

bdd demo

GoDaddy & OpenFGA​

GoDaddy has been working with OpenFGA for a few months. They just published a document explaining why they picked OpenFGA, and how they used to address the authorization challenges they were facing.

Some interesting tidbits:

  • They implemented their own DynamoDB Storage Adapter, as they were heavy Dynamo DB users and liked the eventual consistency model it provided.
  • They needed Contextual Tuples to fully support their use case.

Read the full article here.

Canonical & OpenFGA​

Canonical has also been working with OpenFGA for a while, and it's adding OpenFGA to different layers in their stack.

OpenFGA at Canonical

They just announced that OpenFGA support is included in LXD and MicroCloud.

Pretty soon, if you are using Ubuntu Pro, you will be using OpenFGA :).

OpenFGA v1.4!​

Last week we released OpenFGA v1.4! This release includes our support for Conditional Relationship Tuples, which helps implementing additional Attribute-Based Access Control scenarios like temporal access, IP based access, bank transfer limits, SaaS application plans, and much more!

You can read more about it here.

SDK Improvements​

  • The Java SDK has now feature parity with the rest of the our SDKs. It can be used from any language for the Java VM. You can see examples on Kotlin, Groovy and Scala here.

  • The Python SDK was updated to support synchronous clients, support custom SSL certificates, and better performance in batch checks.

Language Improvements​

We've been working on the OpenFGA language with some long-due improvements. Soon, you'll be able to use parentheses to group expressions when defining relations:

DSL improvements

The syntax is still not supported in the FGA CLI, but we are pretty close. Daniel demoed it in our latest community meeting, you can see the full demo here.

VS Code Extension Improvements​

We have also been improving tuple validation when writing fga.yaml files, and it's pretty cool! Works on Daniel's machine for now :).

Tuple Validation Demo

Daniel also demoed it in our latest community meeting, watch it here.

KubeCon EU 2024​

We are getting ready for KubeCon Europe 2024, in Paris. We'll have a Project Kiosk, and we have submitted a few talks. We'll keep you posted!

OpenFGA Community​

We have a very welcoming community, and we'd love to have you there! You can join us in different ways:

See you next month!​

We'll keep publishing our Fine Grained News each month, after the OpenFGA community meeting. If you have any feedback, you want to share your OpenFGA story, or know about something that you think is worth mentioning, please let us know!