Cerbos Newsletter [11 Jan 2022]

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Hello from Cerbos!

Thank you for being a part of the Cerbos community. Here are our latest updates.
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Happy new year!

We want to thank you for all the support you provide and wish you a wonderful year ahead.
Firstly a review of our achievements in 2021:

Cerbos version 0.11 is out!

V0.11 focuses on support for defining schemas for the contextual data that is required to evaluate policies. With the new schema support, policy authors can define JSON schemas for the principal and resource attributes required by each policy and receive helpful validation messages if a check is made without the full context required. See Schemas for more information.
For developers, the schema provides a level of confidence that the requests being made to the Cerbos instance are correctly formatted and populated. The Cerbos response will include schema validation errors encountered while processing the request, if any. When strict schema enforcement is enabled, requests will be implicitly denied - thus providing peace of mind that decisions are made using correct data points. You can find more about how to define a schema in the documentation.
Policy authors - be it product, security or other teams - can define a set of attributes upfront for use in the policy logic. This means that the condition logic can be safe in assuming that an attribute exists and it is of the correct type. This leads to more streamlined and succinct business logic rather than having to handle edge-cases around existence and types in expressions.
This release also includes preliminary support for OpenTelemetry, the high-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability.

Help us build the future of Cerbos: a control plane

We are working on ground breaking features for Cerbos in 2022 including a control plane to view and update policies and see what is happening behind the scenes. We would love to hear your requirements and feedback, let’s chat!

Blog highlights

Since we started Cerbos, we have published 16 articles that have been very well received by our community. Our most popular posts in 2021 have been:

Industry news

We are honored to be featured in VentureBeat’s recent article: 30 startups that show how open source ate the world in 2021.

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