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This service 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, for example user, application, service, car, etc., is authorized to perform a certain action on a resource.

Introduction
- Installation
Ecosystem
Security
- Disclosing vulnerabilities
Telemetry
Backers
Sponsors

Introduction

ORY Keto models Access Control Lists, Role Based Access Control, and fine-grained permission sets. This server implementation uses ORY Ladon as the decision engine.

ORY Keto resolves credentials using various authentication mechanisms:

OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens using the OAuth 2.0 Introspection standard.
Plaintext when you already know the user ID.
JSON Web Tokens (coming soon).
SAML (coming soon).

Installation

There are various ways of installing ORY keto on your system.

1. Download binaries

The client and server binaries are downloadable at releases. There is no installer yet available. Add the ORY keto binary to the PATH environment variable or add the binary to a location already in your path (/usr/bin, ...). If these download instructions are unclear, ask for clarification in our chat channel. We are happy to help.

2. Using Docker

Starting the host is easiest with Docker. The host process handles HTTP requests and is backed by a database. Read how to install docker on Linux, OSX or Windows. ORY keto is available on Docker Hub.

When using ORY keto without a database, restarting, scaling or stopping the container will lose all data:

$ docker run -e "DATABASE_URL=memory" -d --name my-keto -p 4466:4466 oryd/keto
ec91228cb105db315553499c81918258f52cee9636ea2a4821bdb8226872f54b

Building from source

If you wish to compile ORY keto, install and set up Go 1.10+ and add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH as well as golang/dep.

The following commands check out the latest ORY keto's release tag, compile it and set up flags so that keto version works as expected. Please note that this will only work with a linux shell like bash or sh.

go get -d -u github.com/ory/keto
cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/ory/keto
keto_LATEST=$(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)
git checkout $keto_LATEST
dep ensure -vendor-only
go install \
    -ldflags "-X github.com/ory/keto/cmd.Version=$keto_LATEST -X github.com/ory/keto/cmd.BuildTime=`TZ=UTC date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'` -X github.com/ory/keto/cmd.GitHash=`git rev-parse HEAD`" \
    github.com/ory/keto
git checkout master
keto help

Ecosystem

ORY Security Console: Administrative User Interface

The ORY Security Console is a visual admin interface for ORY Hydra, ORY Oathkeeper, and ORY Keto.

ORY Hydra: OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server

ORY Hydra ORY Hydra is a hardened OAuth2 and OpenID Connect server optimized for low-latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption. ORY Hydra is not an identity provider, which would include user sign up, user log in, password reset flow. Hydra but connects to your existing identity provider through a consent app.

ORY Oathkeeper: Identity & Access Proxy

ORY Oathkeeper is a BeyondCorp/Zero Trust Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) built on top of OAuth2 and ORY Hydra.

Examples

The ory/examples repository contains numerous examples of setting up this project and combining it with other services from the ORY Ecosystem.

Security

Disclosing vulnerabilities

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.

Telemetry

Our services collect summarized, anonymized data which can optionally be turned off. Click here to learn more.

Guide

The Guide is available here.

HTTP API documentation

The HTTP API is documented here.

Upgrading and Changelog

New releases might introduce breaking changes. To help you identify and incorporate those changes, we document these changes in UPGRADE.md and CHANGELOG.md.

Command line documentation

Run keto -h or keto help.

Backers

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, Chancy Kennedy, Drozzy, Oz Haven, TheCrealm