OpenFGA

A high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. OpenFGA is designed to make it easy for developers to model their application permissions and add and integrate fine-grained authorization into their applications. It allows in-memory data storage for quick development, as well as pluggable database modules. It currently supports PostgreSQL 14, MySQL 8, and SQLite (currently in beta). It offers an HTTP API and a gRPC API. It has SDKs for Java, Node.js/JavaScript, GoLang, Python, and .NET. Look in our Community section for third-party SDKs and tools. It can also be used as a library. OpenFGA takes the best ideas from Google's Zanzibar paper for Relationship-Based Access Control, and also solves problems for Role-based Access Control and Attribute-Based Access Control use cases. The modeling language is powerful enough for engineers, but friendly enough for other stakeholders on your team as well.

Features

Relationship-based access control made fast, scalable, and easy to use
OpenFGA will be running at localhost:8080 on your machine
Learn how to use sample authorization models and create your own with the project’s extensive documentation
OpenFGA makes it trivial to contribute new SDKs to support your project's language
Transparency and peer review are important for building secure, stable, and sustainable software
OpenFGA is designed to answer authorization check calls in milliseconds

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Apache License V2.0

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2024-12-05

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