opa-stack

# More info

# Project goal

Working as an engineer/devop-person for some years, one thing often missing is a home for your code doing very custom things, specially logic you often want in the middle of other API's.

The requirements was therefor more or less:

  • Need for python3, non-blocking, async and modern
  • A place to store non-relational temporary (or semi-permanent) data
  • Job queue for things that might take time or you want custom schedule
  • Good self-documenting api endpoints for building other tools on. rest, graphql and websocket out of the box
  • Be dynamic enough to support multiple instances of it running, with some optional communication between them. (Example for different security contexts)
  • Good support for an out-of-the-box k8s deployment, including scalability
  • A way to do almost everything via plugins
  • An optional component system where you can just attach some additional services, like redis, and have it working

# FAQ

# Why not use something out there? Example node-red..

There are a lot of nice tooling out there that solves similar problems. But I really coulnt find anything that was dynamic enough to support what I wanted/needed.

# But what about just setting up everything yourself..?

That is just what this project is trying to do, but doing it in a way so you can use plugins with your actual code, without needing to setup a whole stack. opa-stack tries to gives you a modern base, with minimal efford to start coding.

Take a look at what it's made of below for information what this stack is made of

# But... Then what about other project templates, cookiecutter and other examples

Fair point.. There are a lot of good start-templates out there, both for FastAPI and cookiecutter. And in many cases, they might be better. Example if you are making a big website, or a custom api for a chat platform (or ...).

What the opa-stack gives you is a powerfull platform for where you can do very custom things, but as plugins. Those plugins have access to things they need to be a good api, and to talk to other api's.

# When should I not use opa-stack?

Hard to say, but I woulnt want to use it if the project will have dedicated people working on it, then it might be a good thing starting from scratch, or maybe from a cookiecutter template.

Feel free to use it as an api-endpoint for other parts of your project tho. Let say your main work is on the frontend, but you need an api for something custom..

# When should I use the opa-stack?

Read some docs, see if it fits. If you are a team that needs to talk to a bunch of api's and do custom things using python, it is probably a good fit.

Or maybe you have a team of 20 people, all going to eventually wanting to do a little thing in python where they want access to it via an api, or any other channel.

Opa-stack might also be a good fit if you want a python engine that does something, if something.. You don't haveto use the api-part 😃

# Whats about the name?

The OP in OPA stands for ops, as in a group of people/mindset (yes, yes.. dev is not a part of the name, but it's kinda implicit given the whole name.. kinda 😃).

The A is for API or Automation, or both. You choose 😏

# What it's made of

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