ORY Keto is a permission server that implements best practice access control mechanisms. If you came looking for the answer to the question:
- is a certain user allowed to modify that blog article?
- is this service allowed to print a document?
- is a member of the ACME organisation allowed to modify data in one of their tenants?
- is this process allowed to execute the worker when coming from IP 10.0.0.2 between 4pm and 5pm on a Monday?
- ...
ORY Keto is a permission server that implements best practice access control mechanisms:
- Available today:
- ORY-flavored Access Control Policies with exact, glob, and regexp matching strategies
- Available soon:
- Access Control Lists
- Role Based Access Control
- Role Based Access Control with Context (Google/Kubernetes-flavored)
- Amazon Web Services Identity & Access Management Policies (AWS IAM Policies)
Each mechanism is powered by a decision engine implemented on top of the Open Policy Agent and provides well-defined management and authorization endpoints.
The ORY community stands on the shoulders of individuals, companies, and maintainers. We thank everyone involved - from submitting bug reports and feature requests, to contributing patches, to sponsoring our work. Our community is 1000+ strong and growing rapidly. The ORY stack protects 1.200.000.000+ API requests every month with over 15.000+ active service nodes. We would have never been able to achieve this without each and everyone of you!
The following list represents companies that have accompanied us along the way and that have made outstanding contributions to our ecosystem. If you think that your company deserves a spot here, reach out to office@ory.sh now!
Please consider giving back by becoming a sponsor of our open source work on Patreon or Open Collective.
| Type | Name | Logo | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsor | Raspberry PI Foundation |  |
raspberrypi.org |
| Contributor | Kyma Project |  |
kyma-project.io |
| Sponsor | ThoughtWorks |  |
thoughtworks.com |
| Sponsor | Tulip |  |
tulip.com |
| Sponsor | Cashdeck / All My Funds |  |
cashdeck.com.au |
| Sponsor | 3Rein |  |
3rein.com |
| Contributor | Hootsuite |  |
hootsuite.com |
| Adopter * | Segment |  |
segment.com |
| Adopter * | Arduino |  |
arduino.cc |
| Adopter * | DataDetect |  |
unifiedglobalarchiving.com/data-detect/ |
| Sponsor | OrderMyGear |  |
ordermygear.com |
| Sponsor | Spiri.bo |  |
spiri.bo |
We also want to thank all individual contributors
as well as all of our backers
and past & current supporters (in alphabetical order) on Patreon: Alexander Alimovs, Billy, Chancy Kennedy, Drozzy, Edwin Trejos, Howard Edidin, Ken Adler Oz Haven, Stefan Hans, TheCrealm.
* Uses one of ORY's major projects in production.
Head over to the documentation to learn about ways of installing ORY Keto.
We build Ory on several guiding principles when it comes to our architecture design:
- Minimal dependencies
- Runs everywhere
- Scales without effort
- Minimize room for human and network errors
ORY's architecture designed to run best on a Container Orchestration Systems such as Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, and similar projects. Binaries are small (5-15MB) and available for all popular processor types (ARM, AMD64, i386) and operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows) without system dependencies (Java, Node, Ruby, libxml, ...).
ORY Kratos is an API-first Identity and User Management system that is built according to cloud architecture best practices. It implements core use cases that almost every software application needs to deal with: Self-service Login and Registration, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA/2FA), Account Recovery and Verification, Profile and Account Management.
ORY Hydra is an OpenID Certified™ OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Provider can connect to any existing identity database (LDAP, AD, KeyCloak, PHP+MySQL, ...) and user interface.
ORY Oathkeeper is a BeyondCorp/Zero Trust
Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) with configurable authentication, authorization,
and request mutation rules for your web services: Authenticate JWT, Access
Tokens, API Keys, mTLS; Check if the contained subject is allowed to perform the
request; Encode resulting content into custom headers (X-User-ID), JSON Web
Tokens and more!
ORY Keto is a policy decision point. It uses a set of access control policies, similar to AWS IAM Policies, in order to determine whether a subject (user, application, service, car, ...) is authorized to perform a certain action on a resource.
The ory/examples repository contains numerous examples of setting up this project and combining it with other services from the ORY Ecosystem.
If you think you found a security vulnerability, please refrain from posting it publicly on the forums, the chat, or GitHub and send us an email to hi@ory.am instead.
Our services collect summarized, anonymized data which can optionally be turned off. Click here to learn more.
The Guide is available here.
The HTTP API is documented here.
New releases might introduce breaking changes. To help you identify and incorporate those changes, we document these changes in UPGRADE.md and CHANGELOG.md.
Run keto -h or keto help.
Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]
We would also like to thank (past & current) supporters (in alphabetical order) on Patreon: Alexander Alimovs, Billy, Chancy Kennedy, Drozzy, Edwin Trejos, Howard Edidin, Ken Adler Oz Haven, Stefan Hans, TheCrealm
Sponsors support this project. The sponsor's logo or brand will show up here with a link to the website. [Become a sponsor]
A special thanks goes out to Wayne Robinson for supporting this ecosystem with $200 every month since October 2016 on Patreon.