Welcome to Fine-Grained News, KubeCon Edition!

KubeCon Europe 2024 was super-busy!​

You can now watch online:

• An AppDeveloperCon session about Implementing Modern Cloud Native Authorization Using OpenFGA where Pauline Jamin and Andres Aguiar go over how OpenFGA is helping Agicap to implement fine-grained authorization.

• A 7-min Lightning Talk about OpenFGA: The Cloud Native way to implement Fine-Grained Authorization.

• Jonathan Whitaker's talk about Federated IAM for Kubernetes with OpenFGA, demoing how to use OpenFGA and KeyCloak to implement fine-grained authorization in a Kubernetes cluster, in ways it's not possible today, like giving access to a user for 90 seconds.

• We also participated in Canonical's Operator Day sharing how Canonical is using OpenFGA, but the presentation is not online yet.

Also, thanks to everyone who stopped by the OpenFGA Kiosk in the Project Pavilion to share their feedback about the project or learn more about it!

CNCF incubation​

As you may know, the CNCF has three stages for projects: Sandbox, Incubation, and Graduation. OpenFGA is currently a Sandbox project.

We are very happy to announce that we just applied for Incubation! We are excited about this step and will keep you posted on the progress.

New Adopters​

The OpenFGA community maintains a list of products/projects/companies that are using OpenFGA in production. We'd like to thank thank the following adopters for adding themselves to the list in the last month:

• Instill AI
• Zuplo
• OpenObserve
• Datum

If you are using OpenFGA in production, please consider adding your company/project to the list.

• Raghd Hamzeh represented OpenFGA in an episode on Authorizing Access within a series called "You Choose - Choose Your Own Adventure: The Treacherous Trek to Security”. This episode was comparing OpenFGA with Hexa and Paralus. OpenFGA was the project viewers voted for as most interested in being featured in a demo.

• Sam Bellen published a Google Drive example using OpenFGA. It's a Next.js project, written in TypeScript and ready to deploy on Vercel.

• Philipp Wagner is working on a .NET example inspired by the Github model.

• Pauline Jamin and Geoffroy Braun will present about Infuser du métier dans les autorisations avec ReBAC at Devoxx France 2024 in April 17th.

New Releases​

We just shipped a release candidate of Modular Models, that makes it easy for multiple teams to collaborate in a single OpenFGA model. It requires the following components:

• OpenFGA v.1.5.1
• CLI v0.3.0
• Visual Studio Code Extension v0.2.20

We also shipped new version of our SDKs with several fixes:

• Javascript SDK 0.3.5.
• Go SDK v0.3.5
• Java SDK v0.4.0

Transitioning from Discord to CNCF's Slack​

As we mentioned in the last edition, we transitioned out from Discord for OpenFGA and are now using the CNCF #openfga Slack channel. If you are not part of the CNCF Slack workspace, you need to join the CNCF Slack first.

See you next month!​

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