Athenz
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Overview
Open source platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and fine grained access control in dynamic infrastructures.
Key Features
X.509 Certificate Based Authentication
Fine-grained Authorization (RBAC with JWT)
Decentralized Access Control
Zero Trust capabilities (traffic encryption, AuthN, AuthZ)
Use Cases
Service identity in the form of short-lived X.509 certificates to all workloads deployed in private or public clouds, Authorization and identity provider solution for Kubernetes clusters, Service to service authorization.
Getting Started
Read the documentation or clone the GitHub repo at https://github.com/AthenZ/athenz
Recent Updates
Adopted by LY Corporation as the core authorization engine for Flava IAM.
Did You Know?
Enables zero trust core principles like traffic encryption, AuthN, AuthZ, Dynamic Trust and least privilege access.