Open Source Authentication and Authorization

• the-usher-server

  3 10 7.6 JavaScript

  Authorization server. The Usher looks at your ticket and tells you where you're authorized to go.

  

In my experience, businesses are especially concerned with authorization — enabling product sales to customers.

They would rather not deal with identity and authentication — usernames and passwords — at all. These are already quite nicely handled to various degrees by Cogntio, Auth0, Azure Active Directory, and others.

To address minimalist authorization needs, the portfolio of companies I worked with collaborated to create The Usher[1]. The Usher is an open source authorization server in NodeJS. Worth a peek if you, too, want to focus on authorization separate from authentication.

Disclosure: I am a contributor to The Usher.

[1] https://github.com/DMGT-TECH/the-usher-server

• authentik

  165 6,762 10.0 Go

  The authentication glue you need.

  

That it is, but is a bit convoluted. I ended up settling on Authentik. [0]

[0] https://goauthentik.io/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• free-for-dev

  111 83,859 9.5 HTML

  A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

I'm just starting a new project, and having only rolled our own ghetto authentication and authorization in the past the number of options out there is quite overwhelming!

https://free-for.dev/#/?id=authentication-authorization-and-...

...any advice on a cheap + easy self-hosted solution?

• zitadel

  80 7,050 9.8 Go

  ZITADEL - The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined. Built for the serverless era.

  

The software is open source under Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel). No open core or similar, we run the same version on our Cloud Service and for Enterprises. Thanks for the feedback, we need to make that more obvious then.

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