OpenFGA
High-performance fine-grained authorization engine
OpenFGA is an open-source, CNCF authorization engine inspired by Google Zanzibar for relationship-based access control. It can be self-hosted to centralize fine-grained permission decisions for applications.
Key features
- Relationship-based access
- High-throughput checks
- Modeling language
- gRPC and HTTP APIs
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Mature project with 5.8k GitHub stars
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