Docker Authorization with OPA: The Silent Fail-Open and Other Production Lessons

Bu yazının Türkçesi: OPA ile Docker Authorization 1. Introduction I set up opa-docker-authz to restrict Docker on shared, multi-user Linux workstations. After a routine policy update, I noticed that --privileged containers were silently running. This article summarizes that incident and what I found in the source code afterward. Docker authorization plugins let you evaluate every API request sent to the Docker daemon against a policy before the daemon processes it. opa-docker-authz is a plugin that implements this mechanism with OPA (Open Policy Agent) and its policy language, Rego. ...

October 12, 2026 · 31 min · Onur Baydaş