---
title: "OPA Newsletter: August 2022"
sidebar_label: "August Newsletter"
authors: ["peteroneilljr"]
date: 2022-08-22
slug: august-newsletter-4c177ddc4829
---

_August Edition!_

August is here and we are feeling the heat! Reply back to this email and let the OPA team know how you're beating the heat this year!

## Community Updates

Office Hours and the Bi-weekly meeting have converged to 1 weekly meeting. Each Office Hours is an open format meeting you can use to ask any questions you'd like.

But now we are reserving the Office Hours Session following a new OPA release to showcase the new features from that release. Join the next session on August 9th to hear about the v0.43.0 release

[Sign Up for Office Hours](https://calendly.com/peter-styra/opa-office-hours)

You can also watch the replays from the OPA Office Hours and the Gatekeeper Weekly meetings on YouTube. Check out the release announcement for v0.42.0 below.

## YouTube Videos 🎥

Our community has posted lots of good stuff on YouTube this month, check out these cool videos.

## Feature Release Videos

## Keywords, Contains and If

How to incorporate the new keywords **contains** and **if** into your policies.

[Watch Now](https://youtu.be/dm-JsDQPCZ0)

## Builtin, Object.subset

This new builtin allows you to check if a set, array, or object is a subset of another item.

[Watch Now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=indJqrgOSko)

## Events 📆

- [Cloud Native Computing Meetup | August 25, 2022](https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-computing-switzerland/events/283522028/?utm_content=215127640&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-2851142013)
- [OPA Office Hours | August 9th, 2022](https://calendly.com/peter-styra/opa-office-hours)

## Blogs

- [Open Policy Agent (OPA) For Kubernetes](https://dev.to/thenjdevopsguy/open-policy-agent-opa-for-kubernetes-5895)
- [High-Performance OPA](https://dimakorolev.substack.com/p/high-performance-opa)
- [How to Shape OPA Data for Policy Performance](https://www.styra.com/blog/how-to-shape-opa-data-for-policy-performance/)

## Ecosystem

### [Open Policy Agent v0.43.0](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/releases/tag/v0.43.0)

- [Large Object Performance Improvements](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/issues/4625)
- [GraphQL Tutorial](https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/graphql-api-authorization/)

### [Gatekeeper v3.9.0](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper/releases/tag/v3.9.0)

- [Constraint schema validation testing](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper/pull/2092)
- [Make gatekeeper validate subresources](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper/pull/2054)

### [Conftest v0.34.0](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/conftest/releases/tag/v0.34.0)

- [Add parse_config and parse_config_file Rego functions to allow unit testing using config file snippets](https://www.conftest.dev/#writing-unit-tests)

## Calling all OPA End-Users

OPA Summit is officially scheduled, are you ready to share your OPA development journey? Let me us know how you're using OPA and we will help you craft a presentation. This event will be colocated at Kubecon in Detroit this October.

[👉 Speak at OPA Summit 👈](mailto:peteroneilljr@styra.com)

## Let us know how we did

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