OpenFGA
Relationship-based access control made fast and easy to use.
OpenFGA launched on September 1, 2022 with 7 votes, #1,112 of 3,464 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
OpenFGA is a fast, flexible Fine-Grained Authorization system inspired by Google's Zanzibar paper, designed for reliability and low latency. Developers can easily model and integrate an authorization layer consistently across all of their applications.
OpenFGA is a CNCF Incubating open-source fine-grained authorization engine inspired by Google Zanzibar. Used by Grafana, Docker, and Canonical.
OpenFGA is an open-source authorization solution that allows developers to build granular access control using an easy-to-read modeling language and friendly APIs. OpenFGA will be running at localhost:8080 on your machine. Learn about other options and next steps in the project README.md or Getting Started guides. Learn how to use sample authorization models and create your own with the project’s extensive documentation . 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…from openfga.dev
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