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ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. The BeyondCorp Model is designed by Google and secures applications in Zero-Trust networks.

An Identity & Access Proxy is typically deployed in front of (think API Gateway) web-facing applications and is capable of authenticating and optionally authorizing access requests. The Access Control Decision API can be deployed alongside an existing API Gateway or reverse proxy. ORY Oathkeeper's Access Control Decision API works with:

• Ambassador via auth service.
• Envoy via the External Authorization HTTP Filter
• AWS API Gateway via Custom Authorizers
• Nginx via Authentication Based on Subrequest Result

among others.

This service is stable, but under active development and may introduce breaking changes in future releases. Any breaking change will have extensive documentation and upgrade instructions.

Ory Network Hybrid Support Plan

Ory offers a support plan for Ory Network Hybrid, including Ory on private cloud deployments. If you have a self-hosted solution and would like help, consider a support plan! The team at Ory has years of experience in cloud computing. Ory's offering is the only official program for qualified support from the maintainers. For more information see the website or book a meeting!

Project Renaming

The Ory Oathkeeper project was started in 2017 in Germany and owes its name to the Sword Oathkeeper from Game of Thrones. We also understand that the name is politically charged in the US as it is shared with a far-right militia organization in the US called "Oath Keepers".

To take a stand against extremism and avoid any confusion to the name's origin, we will be renaming the project in the near future. Please be patient with us as we work on this complicated change of various CIs, tools, scripts, and automations.

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• Installation
• Who's using it?
• Ecosystem
  • ORY Kratos: Identity and User Infrastructure and Management
  • ORY Hydra: OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server
  • ORY Oathkeeper: Identity & Access Proxy
  • ORY Keto: Access Control Policies as a Server
• Security
  • Disclosing vulnerabilities
• Telemetry
• Documentation
  • Guide
  • HTTP API documentation
  • Upgrading and Changelog
  • Command line documentation
  • Develop

Installation

Head over to the ORY Developer Documentation to learn how to install ORY Oathkeeper on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Docker and how to build ORY Oathkeeper from source.

Who's using it?

The Ory community stands on the shoulders of individuals, companies, and maintainers. The Ory team thanks everyone involved - from submitting bug reports and feature requests, to contributing patches and documentation. The Ory community counts more than 33.000 members and is growing rapidly. The Ory stack protects 60.000.000.000+ API requests every month with over 400.000+ active service nodes. None of this would have been possible 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!

Type	Name	Logo	Website
Adopter *	Raspberry PI Foundation		raspberrypi.org
Adopter *	Kyma Project		kyma-project.io
Adopter *	Tulip		tulip.com
Adopter *	Cashdeck / All My Funds		cashdeck.com.au
Adopter *	Hootsuite		hootsuite.com
Adopter *	Segment		segment.com
Adopter *	Arduino		arduino.cc
Adopter *	DataDetect		unifiedglobalarchiving.com/data-detect/
Adopter *	Sainsbury's		sainsburys.co.uk
Adopter *	Contraste		contraste.com
Adopter *	Reyah		reyah.eu
Adopter *	Zero		getzero.dev
Adopter *	Padis		padis.io
Adopter *	Cloudbear		cloudbear.eu
Adopter *	Security Onion Solutions		securityonionsolutions.com
Adopter *	Factly		factlylabs.com
Adopter *	Nortal		nortal.com
Adopter *	OrderMyGear		ordermygear.com
Adopter *	Spiri.bo		spiri.bo
Adopter *	Strivacity		strivacity.com
Adopter *	Hanko		hanko.io
Adopter *	Rabbit		rabbit.co.th
Adopter *	inMusic		inmusicbrands.com
Adopter *	Buhta		buhta.com
Adopter *	Connctd		connctd.com
Adopter *	Paralus		paralus.io
Adopter *	TIER IV		tier4.jp
Adopter *	R2Devops		r2devops.io
Adopter *	LunaSec		lunasec.io
Adopter *	Serlo		serlo.org
Adopter *	dyrector.io		dyrector.io
Adopter *	Stackspin		stackspin.net
Adopter *	Amplitude		amplitude.com
Adopter *	Pinniped		pinniped.dev
Adopter *	Pvotal		pvotal.tech

Many thanks to all individual contributors

* Uses one of Ory's major projects in production.

Ecosystem

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 is designed to run best on a Container Orchestration system 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: Identity and User Infrastructure and Management

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: OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server

Ory Hydra is an OpenID Certified™ OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Provider which easily connects to any existing identity system by writing a tiny "bridge" application. It gives absolute control over the user interface and user experience flows.

Ory Oathkeeper: Identity & Access Proxy

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: Access Control Policies as a Server

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.

Security

Disclosing vulnerabilities

If you think you found a security vulnerability, please refrain from posting it publicly on the forums, the chat, or GitHub. You can find all info for responsible disclosure in our security.txt.

Telemetry

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

Documentation

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 oathkeeper -h or oathkeeper help.

Develop

Developing with ORY Oathkeeper is as easy as:

$ cd ~
$ go get -d -u github.com/ory/oathkeeper
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory/oathkeeper
$ export GO111MODULE=on
$ go test ./...