Permify - Open Source Authorization Service

What is Permify?

Permify is an open-source authorization service for creating and maintaining fine-grained authorizations accross your individual applications and services.

Permify stores access control relations on a database you choose and performs authorization checks based on the stored relations. We called that database Write Database (WriteDB) and it behaves as a centralized data source for your authorization system. You can model your authorization with Permify's DSL - Permify Schema and perform access checks with a single API call anywhere on your stack.

Data model is inspired by Google’s consistent, global authorization system, Google Zanzibar Paper.

Permify works best:

• If you already have an identity/auth solution and want to plug in fine-grained authorization on top of that.
• If you want to create a unified access control mechanism for individual applications.
• If you’re managing authorization for growing micro-service infrastructure.
• If you want to make future-proof authorization system and don't want to spend engineering effort for it.
• If your authorization logic is cluttering your code base.
• If your data model is getting too complicated to handle your authorization within the service.
• If your authorization is growing too complex to handle within code or API gateway.

Features

🔐 Convert & store authorization data in house with high availability.

🔮 Easily model and refactor your authorization with Permify's DSL, Permify Schema.

📝 Audit & Reason your access control hassle-free with user interface.

🩺 Analyze performance and behavior of your authorization with tracing tools jaeger, signoz or zipkin.

✅ Low latency with parallel graph engine on access checks.

How it works

Getting Started

• Install Permify with running Permify container.
• Follow a guide to model your authorization using Permify Schema.
• See our playground, build your authorization logic and test it with sample data.
• Take a look at the overview of Permify API.

Community & Support

Join our Discord channel for issues, feature requests, feedbacks or anything else. We love to talk about authorization and access control ❤

Contributing

Want to contribute ?

See: CONTRIBUTING.md.

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