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24 alternatives to Open-source Role management and Permissions Library

Open source RBAC library. Associate users with roles and permissions. - Permify/go-role

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-source Role management and Permissions Library launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    oPermify▲122

    An open-source library for role management by Permify

    2022 · permify.co · its alternatives →

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    Manage roles & permissions in your React applications

    2022 · permify.co · its alternatives →

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    Permify was born out of our repeated struggles with authorization. Like any other piece of software, authorization starts small but as things grow scaling it becomes a real pain and begins to hinder product development processes. Ad-hoc authorization systems scattered throughout your app’s codebase are hard to manage, reason about, and iterate on as the company grows. Also you will need to have more specific access controls as things grow. Traditional approaches like RBAC is inefficient for defining granular permissions such as resource-specific, hierarchical, or context-aware permissions.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. - ory/ladon

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight role based access management solution for React applications - Permify/react-role

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Permission Manager is a project that brings sanity to Kubernetes RBAC and Users management, Web UI FTW - sighupio/permission-manager

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of FusionAuth 🎉 - Permify/permify

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source authentication and authorization solution

    2021 · authorizer.dev · its alternatives →

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    Permit.io▲677

    The new Permit.io CLI brings developer-first workflows to access control. Define, test, deploy, and enforce fine-grained authorization using AI, CI/CD, GitOps, and OpenAPI — all from your terminal

    2023 · permit.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey Everyone, Almost year ago we launched Permify an open-source authorization service to build fine-grained and scalable user permissions and access control systems over here(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32096610) My co-founders and I had a enterprise solution agency where we worked with a bunch of fortune 500 companies. Each projects we made we have to re-invent the wheel for access control and authorization. Not having a easy to integrate, scalable and a granular system that can fulfill the requirements of these enterprise companies was a pain in the ass for us. As…

    2023 · permify.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks, I’m one of the maintainers and co-founder of the Go OSS project Permify (https://github.com/Permify/permify), an open-source authorization infrastructure inspired by Google Zanzibar. I would like to share a post where we aimed to provide a brief overview of how we integrated WASM with Golang to provide a richer user experience in our open-source playground. You can use the playground to create and test any authorization logic in a browser. The playground has three main sections: Schema: to model your authorization logic through our domanin specific language we…

    2023 · permify.co · its alternatives →

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    Cloud-native authorization for modern applications and APIs - aserto-dev/topaz

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Permify, is an open-source authorization service for building scalable and fine-grained authorization.

    2022 · permify.co · its alternatives →

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    Oso helps companies run agents in production with confidence using monitoring, access controls, and automated least privilege.

    2020 · osohq.com · its alternatives →

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    A sensible secret management toolkit (and Go library) for admins and programmers - domodwyer/cryptic

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Library for interacting with LLVM IR in pure Go. Contribute to llir/llvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source auth for enterprise applications, and AI agents

    Sep 2026 · authorizer.dev · its alternatives →

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    A package to use Mozilla's Persona identification system in Go. - sauerbraten/persona

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tool for quickly evaluating IAM permissions in AWS. - nccgroup/PMapper

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Permify Go Client. Contribute to Permify/permify-go development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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