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Ory Kratos is _the_ developer-friendly, security-hardened and battle-tested
Identity, User Management and Authentication system for the Cloud. Finally, it
is no longer necessary to implement User Login for the umpteenth time!
## Ory Kratos on the Ory Network
The [Ory Network](https://www.ory.sh/cloud) is the fastest, most secure and
worry-free way to use Ory's Services. **Ory Identities** is powered by the Ory
Kratos open source identity server, and it's fully API-compatible.
The Ory Network provides the infrastructure for modern end-to-end security:
- **Identity & credential management scaling to billions of users and devices**
- **Registration, Login and Account management flows for passkey, biometric,
social, SSO and multi-factor authentication**
- **Pre-built login, registration and account management pages and components**
- OAuth2 and OpenID provider for single sign on, API access and
machine-to-machine authorization
- Low-latency permission checks based on Google's Zanzibar model and with
built-in support for the Ory Permission Language
It's fully managed, highly available, developer & compliance-friendly!
- GDPR-friendly secure storage with data locality
- Cloud-native APIs, compatible with Ory's Open Source servers
- Comprehensive admin tools with the web-based Ory Console and the Ory Command
Line Interface (CLI)
- Extensive documentation, straightforward examples and easy-to-follow guides
- Fair, usage-based [pricing](https://www.ory.sh/pricing)
Sign up for a
[**free developer account**](https://console.ory.sh/registration?utm_source=github&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=kratos-readme)
today!
## Ory Kratos On-premise support
Are you running Ory Kratos in a mission-critical, commercial environment? The
Ory Enterprise License (OEL) provides enhanced features, security, and expert
support directly from the Ory core maintainers.
Organizations that require advanced features, enhanced security, and
enterprise-grade support for Ory's identity and access management solutions
benefit from the Ory Enterprise License (OEL) as a self-hosted, premium offering
including:
- Additional features not available in the open-source version.
- Regular releases that address CVEs and security vulnerabilities, with strict
SLAs for patching based on severity.
- Support for advanced scaling and multi-tenancy features.
- Premium support options, including SLAs, direct engineer access, and concierge
onboarding.
- Access to private Docker registry for a faster, more reliable access to vetted
enterprise builds.
A valid Ory Enterprise License and access to the Ory Enterprise Docker Registry
are required to use these features. OEL is designed for mission-critical,
production, and global applications where organizations need maximum control and
flexibility over their identity infrastructure. Ory's offering is the only
official program for qualified support from the maintainers. For more
information book a meeting with the Ory team to
**[discuss your needs](https://www.ory.sh/contact/)**!
### Quickstart
Install the [Ory CLI](https://www.ory.sh/docs/guides/cli/installation) and
create a new project to get started with Ory Identities right away:
```
# If you don't have Ory CLI installed yet:
bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ory/meta/master/install.sh) -b . ory
sudo mv ./ory /usr/local/bin/
# Sign up
ory auth
# Create project
ory create project
```
**Table of Contents**
- [Ory Kratos on the Ory Network](#ory-kratos-on-the-ory-network)
- [Quickstart](#quickstart)
- [What is Ory Kratos?](#what-is-ory-kratos)
- [Who is using it?](#who-is-using-it)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Ecosystem](#ecosystem)
- [Ory Kratos: Identity and User Infrastructure and Management](#ory-kratos-identity-and-user-infrastructure-and-management)
- [Ory Hydra: OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server](#ory-hydra-oauth2--openid-connect-server)
- [Ory Oathkeeper: Identity & Access Proxy](#ory-oathkeeper-identity--access-proxy)
- [Ory Keto: Access Control Policies as a Server](#ory-keto-access-control-policies-as-a-server)
- [Security](#security)
- [Disclosing vulnerabilities](#disclosing-vulnerabilities)
- [Telemetry](#telemetry)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Guide](#guide)
- [HTTP API documentation](#http-api-documentation)
- [Upgrading and Changelog](#upgrading-and-changelog)
- [Command line documentation](#command-line-documentation)
- [Develop](#develop)
- [Dependencies](#dependencies)
- [Install from source](#install-from-source)
- [Formatting Code](#formatting-code)
- [Running Tests](#running-tests)
- [Short Tests](#short-tests)
- [Regular Tests](#regular-tests)
- [Updating Test Fixtures](#updating-test-fixtures)
- [End-to-End Tests](#end-to-end-tests)
- [Build Docker](#build-docker)
- [Documentation Tests](#documentation-tests)
- [Preview API documentation](#preview-api-documentation)
## What is Ory Kratos?
Ory Kratos is an API-first Identity and User Management system that is built
according to
[cloud architecture best practices](https://www.ory.sh/docs/ecosystem/software-architecture-philosophy).
It implements core use cases that almost every software application needs to
deal with:
- **Self-service Login and Registration**: Allow end-users to create and sign
into accounts (we call them **identities**) using Username / Email and
password combinations, Social Sign In ("Sign in with Google, GitHub"),
Passwordless flows, and others.
- **Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA/2FA)**: Support protocols such as TOTP
([RFC 6238](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238) and
[IETF RFC 4226](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4226) - better known as
[Google Authenticator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Authenticator))
- **Account Verification**: Verify that an E-Mail address, phone number, or
physical address actually belong to that identity.
- **Account Recovery**: Recover access using "Forgot Password" flows, Security
Codes (in case of MFA device loss), and others.
- **Profile and Account Management**: Update passwords, personal details, email
addresses, linked social profiles using secure flows.
- **Admin APIs**: Import, update, delete identities.
We highly recommend reading the
[Ory Kratos introduction docs](https://www.ory.sh/kratos/docs/) to learn more
about Ory Krato's background, feature set, and differentiation from other
products.
### Who is using it?
The Ory community stands on the shoulders of individuals, companies, and
maintainers. The Ory team thanks everyone involved - from submitting bug reports
and feature requests, to contributing patches and documentation. The Ory
community counts more than 50.000 members and is growing. The Ory stack protects
7.000.000.000+ API requests every day across thousands of companies. None of
this would have been possible 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
office@ory.sh now_!
| Name | Logo | Website | Case Study |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI |
|
openai.com | OpenAI Case Study |
| Fandom |
|
fandom.com | Fandom Case Study |
| Lumin |
|
luminpdf.com | Lumin Case Study |
| Sencrop |
|
sencrop.com | Sencrop Case Study |
| OSINT Industries |
|
osint.industries | OSINT Industries Case Study |
| HGV |
|
hgv.it | HGV Case Study |
| Maxroll |
|
maxroll.gg | Maxroll Case Study |
| Zezam |
|
zezam.io | Zezam Case Study |
| T.RowePrice |
|
troweprice.com | |
| Mistral |
|
mistral.ai | |
| Axel Springer |
|
axelspringer.com | |
| Hemnet |
|
hemnet.se | |
| Cisco |
|
cisco.com | |
| Presidencia de la República Dominicana |
|
presidencia.gob.do | |
| Moonpig |
|
moonpig.com | |
| Booster |
|
choosebooster.com | |
| Zaptec |
|
zaptec.com | |
| Klarna |
|
klarna.com | |
| Raspberry PI Foundation |
|
raspberrypi.org | |
| Tulip |
|
tulip.com | |
| Hootsuite |
|
hootsuite.com | |
| Segment |
|
segment.com | |
| Arduino |
|
arduino.cc | |
| Sainsbury's |
|
sainsburys.co.uk | |
| Contraste |
|
contraste.com | |
| inMusic |
|
inmusicbrands.com | |
| Buhta |
|
buhta.com | |
| Amplitude |
|
amplitude.com | |
kratos -h or
kratos help.
### Develop
We encourage all contributions and encourage you to read our
[contribution guidelines](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
#### Dependencies
You need Go 1.16+ and (for the test suites):
- Docker and Docker Compose
- Makefile
- NodeJS / npm
It is possible to develop Ory Kratos on Windows, but please be aware that all
guides assume a Unix shell like bash or zsh.
#### Install from source
make install#### Formatting Code You can format all code using
make format. Our
CI checks if your code is properly formatted.
#### Running Tests
There are three types of tests you can run:
- Short tests (do not require a SQL database like PostgreSQL)
- Regular tests (do require PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB)
- End to end tests (do require databases and will use a test browser)
##### Short Tests
Short tests run fairly quickly. You can either test all of the code at once
```shell script
go test -short -tags sqlite ./...
```
or test just a specific module:
```shell script
cd client; go test -tags sqlite -short .
```
##### Regular Tests
Regular tests require a database set up. Our test suite is able to work with
docker directly (using [ory/dockertest](https://github.com/ory/dockertest)) but
we encourage to use the Makefile instead. Using dockertest can bloat the number
of Docker Images on your system and are quite slow. Instead we recommend doing:
make testPlease be aware that
make test recreates the
databases every time you run make test. This
can be annoying if you are trying to fix something very specific and need the
database tests all the time. In that case we suggest that you initialize the
databases with:
```shell script
make test-resetdb
export TEST_DATABASE_MYSQL='mysql://root:secret@(127.0.0.1:3444)/mysql?parseTime=true'
export TEST_DATABASE_POSTGRESQL='postgres://postgres:secret@127.0.0.1:3445/kratos?sslmode=disable'
export TEST_DATABASE_COCKROACHDB='cockroach://root@127.0.0.1:3446/defaultdb?sslmode=disable'
```
Then you can run `go test` as often as you'd like:
```shell script
go test -tags sqlite ./...
# or in a module:
cd client; go test -tags sqlite .
```
##### Updating Test Fixtures
Some tests use fixtures. If payloads change, you can update them with:
```
make test-update-snapshots
```
This will only update the snapshots of the short tests. To update all snapshots,
run:
```bash
UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=true go test -p 4 -tags sqlite ./...
```
You can also run this command from a sub folder.
##### End-to-End Tests
We use [Cypress](https://www.cypress.io) to run our e2e tests.
⚠️ To run Cypress on ARM based Mac's, at the moment it is
[necessary to install Rosetta 2](https://www.cypress.io/blog/2021/01/20/running-cypress-on-the-apple-m1-silicon-arm-architecture-using-rosetta-2/).
To install, use the command -
`softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license`
The simplest way to develop e2e tests is:
./test/e2e/run.sh --dev sqliteYou can run all tests (with databases) using:
make test-e2eFor more details, run:
./test/e2e/run.sh**Run only a singular test** Add `.only` to the test you would like to run. For example: ```ts it.only('invalid remote recovery email template', () => { ... }) ``` **Run a subset of tests** This will require editing the `cypress.json` file located in the `test/e2e/` folder. Add the `testFiles` option and specify the test to run inside the `cypress/integration` folder. As an example we will add only the `network` tests. ```json "testFiles": ["profiles/network/*"], ``` Now start the tests again using the run script or makefile. #### Build Docker You can build a development Docker Image using:
make docker#### Preview API documentation - update the SDK including the OpenAPI specification:
make sdk
- run preview server for API documentation: make
docs/api
- run preview server for swagger documentation: make
docs/swagger