Understanding Google Zanzibar and Why Shines at Building Permissions

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  • warrant

    Warrant is a highly scalable, centralized authorization service based on Google Zanzibar, used for defining, querying, and auditing application authorization models and access control rules.

  • Google doesn't actually offer Zanzibar as a product/service (in GCP or otherwise) to customers. However, they do use it internally to manage permissions across their various products (Google Docs, Drive, YouTube, etc.) and have had a lot of success doing so. Because of that, there are many open source implementations of Zanzibar out there (as others have commented). Warrant also maintains our own open source implementation of Zanzibar[1] which powers our managed cloud offering, Warrant Cloud[2].

    [1] https://github.com/warrant-dev/warrant

  • Ory Keto

    Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.

  • Shameless plug for Ory Keto, probably the best reference implementation IMO https://github.com/ory/keto

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