Description:
High performance and flexible authorization/permission engine
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Type: Formula
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Latest Version: 1.11.2@0
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Tracked Since: Nov 4, 2025
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Links:
Homepage |
@openfga |
formulae.brew.sh
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Category: Developer tools
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Tags:
authorization
permissions
security
access-control
api
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Install:
brew install openfga
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About:
OpenFGA is an open-source authorization/permission engine built for developers, designed to implement fine-grained access control (FGAC) at scale. It uses Google's Zanzibar paper as its foundation, offering a flexible relationship-based authorization model. Its main value is enabling complex authorization logic like 'users can view documents they own or that are shared with their team' to be expressed and evaluated efficiently.
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Key Features:
- Relationship-based authorization model inspired by Google Zanzibar
- High-performance check and list queries for real-time decisions
- Flexible modeling language for defining complex authorization schemas
- gRPC and HTTP APIs with official SDKs for multiple languages
- Pluggable storage supporting PostgreSQL and MySQL
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Use Cases:
- Implementing fine-grained user permissions in SaaS applications
- Managing resource sharing and collaboration features (e.g., 'editor', 'viewer' roles)
- Centralizing authorization logic for microservices architectures
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Alternatives:
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OPA (Open Policy Agent)
– OPA is a general-purpose policy engine using Rego; OpenFGA is specialized for relationship-based authorization with a dedicated modeling language.
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Casbin
– Casbin is a library with support for multiple models, while OpenFGA is a standalone service focused on the Zanzibar model for distributed systems.
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