# OPA Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.minio.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.minio.io)

OPA is a lightweight general-purpose policy engine that can be co-located with MinIO server, in this document we talk about how to use OPA HTTP API to authorize requests. It can be used with any type of credentials (STS based like OpenID or LDAP, regular IAM users or service accounts).

OPA is enabled through MinIO's Access Management Plugin feature.

## Get started

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<img src="/img/tutorial/sub-applications/image02.png">

If you try interacting with any of the two user interfaces, they will work correctly, because the browser will be able to talk to each specific app or sub-app.

### Technical Details: `root_path` { #technical-details-root-path }

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## Prerequisites

Install Dex by following [Dex Getting Started Guide](https://dexidp.io/docs/getting-started/)

### Start Dex

```

    assertFailsToDecode(base64(), "Wf2!", "Unrecognized character: !");
    // This sentence just isn't base64() encoded.
    assertFailsToDecode(base64(), "let's not talk of love or chains!");
    // A 4n+1 length string is never legal base64().
    assertFailsToDecode(base64(), "12345", "Invalid input length 5");

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2F8F          ; mapped                 ; 884C          # 3.0  KANGXI RADICAL WALK ENCLOSURE
2F90          ; mapped                 ; 8863          # 3.0  KANGXI RADICAL CLOTHES
2F91          ; mapped                 ; 897E          # 3.0  KANGXI RADICAL WEST

#### Framed protocols

Framed protocols like http/2 don't lend themselves to blocking APIs. Each application-layer thread wants to do blocking I/O for a specific stream, but the streams are multiplexed on the socket. You can't just talk to the socket, you need to cooperate with the other application-layer threads that you're sharing it with.

And then, there would be another program (in some cases it's another program, in some cases it could be the same TLS Termination Proxy) that would talk to Let's Encrypt, and renew the certificate(s).

<img src="/img/deployment/https/https.drawio.svg">

The **TLS certificates** are **associated with a domain name**, not with an IP address.

func registerBootstrapRESTHandlers(gm *grid.Manager) {
	server := &bootstrapRESTServer{}
	logger.FatalIf(serverVerifyHandler.Register(gm, server.VerifyHandler), "unable to register handler")
}

// client to talk to bootstrap NEndpoints.
type bootstrapRESTClient struct {
	gridConn *grid.Connection
}

// Verify function verifies the server config.