Housecarl AuthZ is an authorization service, a cloud-native, zero-trust ready AuthZ system.

Quick Start

Sign up on https://housecarl.cloud and select the AuthZ service, free tier. This gives you access to enough API calls to start using the best in class AuthZ solution

• Your “tenant” name and uuid already were defined in the sign up flow, and a “root domain” was created. Policies live in domains.

• Download the housectl here (Todo)

• Run housectl config login.

• Set up a policy for your test!

• Run housectl is-allowed fakeuser fake-action fake-resource

• Run housectl is-allowed fail-user fake-action fake-resource.

• Wow! You have just signed up and used Housecarl AuthZ, the best in class AuthZ provider.

Here are some things to try next:

Set a policy that grants usage to a specific group, rather than a specific user.

Set a policy that grants usage for a resource that contains the username of the user.

Unbundle a JWT token and map a specific claim to a policy.

Purchase a limited trial license for $0.00 to install on-prem.

Design Intention

Housecarl AuthZ is intended to handle complicated authorization use cases. Technical cases that you should consider Housecarl for include:

• Multiple teams with dichotomous permission models
• Matrix permission structures with cross cutting roles.
• Implementation of multi level security (MLS) deployments.
• Fine grained permission systems
• Easy integration with Apache Keycloak(Future Feature)

Business cases that you should consider Housecarl for include:

• Supported software (SaaS or self hosted)
• Reduces time to market: AuthZ is complicated, and we tackle the hardest cases. We know your developers can do the easy ones. Let us do the hard ones, and do it right in a off the shelf way.
• Aligned incentive structure - our success is your success.
• On premise/self hosted permission management, letting your admins manage risk in accordance with your policies.