Persistance of docker volume of OPA Service not working

[Mel3530]

Hello, I have an OPA service configured in Docker Compose as follows:

opa:
  container_name: opa_dev
  image: openpolicyagent/opa
  command: ["run", "--server", "--addr", ":8282"]
  networks:
    - my-net
  volumes:
    - ./opa/data:/data
  ports:
    - 8282:8282

I have an empty directory named ./opa/data. I'm able to start the container (opa_dev) without any errors in the logs. However, I'm facing an issue where new rules added via a curl request to an API are not persistently stored in the volume. I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide. I've searched many resources but haven't found a solution to fix it.

[charlieegan3]

Hey @Mel3530, I'm afraid that policy set via the REST API will not be persisted to disk. Bundles loaded over the bundle service API can be set to be persisted to disk: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/management-bundles/#bundle-service-api, however this is generally less commonly used in containerised environments.

What is it that you need to do with OPA? Perhaps we can help make it work another way?