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.

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.

• 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

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.

The Ory community stands on the shoulders of individuals, companies, and maintainers. We thank everyone involved - from submitting bug reports and feature requests, to contributing patches, to sponsoring our work. Our community is 1000+ strong and growing rapidly. The Ory stack protects 16.000.000.000+ API requests every month with over 250.000+ active service nodes. We would have never been able to achieve this 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 [email protected] now!

Please consider giving back by becoming a sponsor of our open source work on Patreon or Open Collective.

Type	Name	Logo	Website
Sponsor	Raspberry PI Foundation		raspberrypi.org
Contributor	Kyma Project		kyma-project.io
Sponsor	Tulip		tulip.com
Sponsor	Cashdeck / All My Funds		cashdeck.com.au
Contributor	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
Sponsor	OrderMyGear		ordermygear.com
Sponsor	Spiri.bo		spiri.bo
Sponsor	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

We also want to thank all individual contributors

as well as all of our backers

and past & current supporters (in alphabetical order) on Patreon: Alexander Alimovs, Billy, Chancy Kennedy, Drozzy, Edwin Trejos, Howard Edidin, Ken Adler Oz Haven, Stefan Hans, TheCrealm.

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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 [email protected] instead.

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

The Guide is available here.

The HTTP API is documented here.

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

Run oathkeeper -h or oathkeeper help.

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 ./...