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Tyk Open Policy Agent API

The Tyk Dashboard permission system can be extended by writing custom rules using an Open Policy Agent (OPA). The rules engine works on top of your Dashboard API, which means you can control not only access rules, but also behaviour of all Dashboard APIs (except your public developer portal) By default the Dashboard OPA engine is turned off, and you need to explicitly enable it via your Dashboard tyk_analytics.conf file. You can use OPA rule to accomplish tasks like: 1. Prevent users from creating keyless APIs. 2. Assign specific categories to APIs created to certain user groups or users. 3. Control access for individual fields. For example, do not allow changing the API active status (e.g. deploy), unless you have a specific permission set. 4. And many more [Read more about Tyk Open Policy Agent here](https://tyk.io/docs/tyk-dashboard/open-policy-agent/)

Operations 2

GET /api/org/opa List OPA rules. #
PUT /api/org/opa Update OPA rules. #

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tyk-open-policy-agent-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    email: support@tyk.io
    name: Tyk Technologies
    url: https://tyk.io/contact
  description: '

    ## <a name="introduction"></a> Introduction


    The Tyk Dashboard API offers granular, programmatic access to a centralised database of resources that your Tyk nodes can pull from. This API has a dynamic user administrative structure which means the secret key that is used to communicate with your Tyk nodes can be kept secret and access to the wider management functions can be handled on a user-by-user and organisation-by-organisation basis.


    A common question around using a database-backed configuration is how to programmatically add API definitions to your Tyk nodes, the Dashboard API allows much more fine-grained, secure and multi-user access to your Tyk cluster, and should be used to manage a database-backed Tyk node.


    The Tyk Dashboard API works seamlessly with the Tyk Dashboard (and the two come bundled together).


    ## <a name="security-hierarchy"></a> Security Hierarchy


    The Dashboard API provides a more structured security layer to managing Tyk nodes.


    ### Organisations, APIs and Users


    With the Dashboard API and a database-backed Tyk setup, (and to an extent with file-based API setups - if diligence is used in naming and creating definitions), the following security model is applied to the management of Upstream APIs:


    * **Organisations**: All APIs are *owned* by an organisation, this is designated by the ''OrgID'' parameter in the API Definition.

    * **Users**: All users created in the Dashboard belong to an organisation (unless an exception is made for super-administrative access).

    * **APIs**: All APIs belong to an Organisation and only Users that belong to that organisation can see the analytics for those APIs and manage their configurations.

    * **API Keys**: API Keys are designated by organisation, this means an API key that has full access rights will not be allowed to access the APIs of another organisation on the same system, but can have full access to all APIs within the organisation.

    * **Access Rights**: Access rights are stored with the key, this enables a key to give access to multiple APIs, this is defined by the session object in the core Tyk API.


    In order to use the Dashboard API, you''ll need to get the ''Tyk Dashboard API Access Credentials'' secret from your user profile on the Dashboard UI.


    The secret you set should then be sent along as a header with each Dashboard API Request in order for it to be successful:



    authorization: <your-secret>

    '
  license:
    name: Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
    url: https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk/blob/master/LICENSE.md
  title: Tyk Dashboard Open Policy Agent API
  version: 5.7.1
servers:
- url: https://{tenant}
  variables:
    tenant:
      default: localhost:8080
      description: Your dashboard host
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- description: 'The Tyk Dashboard permission system can be extended by writing custom rules using an Open Policy Agent (OPA). The rules engine works on top of your Dashboard API, which means you can control not only access rules, but also behaviour of all Dashboard APIs (except your public developer portal)  <br/>


    By default the Dashboard OPA engine is turned off, and you need to explicitly enable it via your Dashboard tyk_analytics.conf file. <br/>


    You can use OPA rule to accomplish tasks like: <br/>


    1. Prevent users from creating keyless APIs.

    2. Assign specific categories to APIs created to certain user groups or users.

    3. Control access for individual fields. For example, do not allow changing the API  active  status (e.g. deploy), unless you have a specific permission set.

    4. And many more <br/>


    [Read more about Tyk Open Policy Agent here](https://tyk.io/docs/tyk-dashboard/open-policy-agent/)

    '
  externalDocs:
    description: Tyk Open Policy Agent Full Documentation.
    url: https://tyk.io/docs/tyk-dashboard/open-policy-agent/
  name: Open Policy Agent
paths:
  /api/org/opa:
    get:
      description: List your organisation OPA rules.
      operationId: getOPARules
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                open_policy:
                  rules: "package dashboard_users\ndefault request_intent = \"read\"\nrequest_intent = \"write\" { input.request.method == \"POST\" }\nrequest_intent = \"write\" { input.request.method == \"PUT\" }\nrequest_intent = \"delete\" { input.request.method == \"DELETE\" }\ndeny[\"You cannot create a keyless API.\"] {\n    request_intent == \"write\"\n    contains(input.request.path, \"api/apis\")\n    input.request.body.api_definition.use_keyless == true\n}"
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NewOPARules'
          description: OPA rules fetched.
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Not authorised
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Your license does not support Open Policy.
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Upgrade licence.
        '500':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Failed to identify organisation.
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Internal server error.
      summary: List OPA rules.
      tags:
      - Open Policy Agent
    put:
      description: Modify your OPA rules.
      operationId: updateOrgOPARules
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            example:
              open_policy:
                rules: "package dashboard_users\ndefault request_intent = \"read\"\nrequest_intent = \"write\" { input.request.method == \"POST\" }\nrequest_intent = \"write\" { input.request.method == \"PUT\" }\nrequest_intent = \"delete\" { input.request.method == \"DELETE\" }\ndeny[\"You cannot create a keyless API.\"] {\n    request_intent == \"write\"\n    contains(input.request.path, \"api/apis\")\n    input.request.body.api_definition.use_keyless == true\n}"
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/NewOPARules'
        description: Create rule to prevent creation of keyless APIs.
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: OPA rules has been updated on org level.
                Meta: null
                Status: OK
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: OPA rules updated.
        '400':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Invalid OPA rules.
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Invalid OPA rules.
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Not authorised
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Your license does not support Open Policy.
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: Upgrade licence.
        '500':
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                Message: Failed to unmarshal response body.
                Meta: null
                Status: Error
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
          description: malformed request body.
      summary: Update OPA rules.
      tags:
      - Open Policy Agent
components:
  schemas:
    NewOPARules:
      properties:
        open_policy:
          properties:
            rules:
              type: string
          type: object
      type: object
    ApiResponse:
      properties:
        ID:
          type: string
        Message:
          type: string
        Meta: {}
        Status:
          type: string
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      description: The Tyk Dashboard API Access Credentials
      scheme: bearer
      type: http