GitHub integration - Aserto
Authorization service with GitHub registry
Using GitHub container registry as a policy registry
Securing your policy workflow
GitHub is where the world builds software. The popular platform offers GitHub Packages (GHCR), which allows developers to host and maintain code packages and containers.
Aserto expresses policies as code wrapped in OCI containers. As a result, developers can build, tag, sign, push, and pull authorization policies like Docker containers.
Aserto natively supports the GitHub container registry as the artifact repository for authorization policies built into OCI images. You can use Open Policy Containers (OPCR), a CNCF sandbox project, to build policies and then push them to your GitHub container registry organization. You can also create policy instances in Aserto from policy images stored in the GitHub container registry.
Benefits of using OPCR with GitHub
Easily pull public policy images for sharing/reuse. Keep policy images secure by signing and versioning with Cosign. Then secure, automate, test, and manage your policy development pipeline with the GitHub container registry.
What is Aserto?
Aserto is an authorization service that helps developers build secure applications. It makes it easy to add fine-grained, policy-based, real-time access control to cloud applications and APIs. It offers blazing-fast authorization of a local library, coupled with a centralized control plane for managing policies, user attributes, resource and relationship data, and decision logs. And it comes with everything you need to deliver fine-grained RBAC, ABAC, or ReBAC, as well as comprehensive developer resources for any language or framework - saving you months of engineering time.
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Sam Hall
Head of Technology, Metrikus
"Authorization has been a constant worry over the last two years - everyone was scared of it. With Aserto, I'm so much more comfortable with authorization because I can see what's going on. Before, it was a dark art - we had a muddled permission structure. With Aserto, we have clear policies that are easy to implement and obvious to analyze. Aserto has made AuthZ something we're not scared of anymore."
James Lindenbaum
Founder, Heroku & Heavybit
“A policy-centric authorization solution for developers is a glaring hole in the market, and there is no team on the planet better equipped to build it to enterprise-grade."
Grant Miller
Co-founder / CEO, Replicated
"B2B SaaS vendors have a huge opportunity going after the enterprise, but only if they meet enterprise expectations, as we've captured in EnterpriseReady.io. Replicated serves 50% of the F100, and we know first-hand that authorization and RBAC are table-stakes for enterprise adoption. It's obvious to me that partnering with Aserto is a far better approach compared to rolling your own and having to reinvent the wheel."
David Kerber
VP of Technology
"Authorization involves really hard problems that I want experts to solve. We like to focus our internal engineering efforts on our customers and their problems. Aserto allows us to do just that, at a small fraction of the cost it would take to build and maintain it ourselves, not to mention the opportunity cost."
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Co-founder & CEO, Netlify
"As millions of developers and businesses are adopting a Jamstack approach, most modern web applications involve multiple APIs and services. Aserto's promise of separating policies from code could radically simplify the implementation of authorization across the front-end UI and the larger world of back-end functions and endpoints."
Tom Preston-Werner
Co-founder, GitHub
"Building & managing an authorization/RBAC system is a huge pain, especially at enterprise scale. So stop! Aserto has a distributed, millisecond latency, 100% availability API for that. I'm excited to help as an angel investor!"