Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.
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Ory Hydra is a hardened, OpenID Certified OAuth 2.0 Server and OpenID Connect
Provider optimized for low-latency, high throughput, and low resource
consumption. It connects to your existing identity provider through a login and
consent app, giving you absolute control over the user interface and experience.
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What is Ory Hydra?
Ory Hydra is a server implementation of the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework
and the OpenID Connect Core 1.0. It follows cloud architecture best practices
and focuses on:
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows
Token issuance and validation
Client management
Consent and login flow orchestration
JWKS management
Low latency and high throughput
We recommend starting with the Ory Hydra introduction docs to learn more
about its architecture, feature set, and how it compares to other systems.
Why Ory Hydra
Ory Hydra is designed to:
Be a standalone OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect server without user management
Connect to any existing identity provider through a login and consent app
Give you absolute control over the user interface and experience flows
As a self hosted service under your own control, with or without the Ory
Enterprise License
Use Ory Hydra on the Ory Network
The Ory Network is the fastest way to use Ory
services in production. Ory OAuth2 & OpenID Connect is powered by the open
source Ory Hydra server and is API compatible.
The Ory Network provides:
OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for single sign on, API access, and machine to
machine authorization
Identity and credential management that scales to billions of users and
devices
Registration, login, and account management flows for passkeys, biometrics,
social login, SSO, and multi factor authentication
Prebuilt login, registration, and account management pages and components
Low latency permission checks based on the Zanzibar model with the Ory
Permission Language
GDPR friendly storage with data locality and compliance in mind
Web based Ory Console and Ory CLI for administration and operations
Cloud native APIs compatible with the open source servers
Install Hydra on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Docker
Configure databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CockroachDB
Deploy to Kubernetes and other orchestration systems
Build Hydra from source
This guide uses the open source distribution to get you started without license
requirements. It is a great fit for individuals, researchers, hackers, and
companies that want to experiment, prototype, or run unimportant workloads
without SLAs. You get the full core engine, and you are free to inspect, extend,
and build it from source.
If you run Hydra as part of a business-critical system, for example OAuth2 and
OpenID Connect for all your users, you should use a commercial agreement to
reduce operational and security risk. The Ory Enterprise License (OEL)
layers on top of self-hosted Hydra and provides:
Additional enterprise features that are not available in the open source
version
Regular security releases, including CVE patches, with service level
agreements
Support for advanced scaling, multi-tenancy, and complex deployments
Premium support options with SLAs, direct access to engineers, and onboarding
help
Access to a private Docker registry with frequent and vetted, up-to-date
enterprise builds
For guaranteed CVE fixes, current enterprise builds, advanced features, and
support in production, you need a valid Ory Enterprise License and access
to the Ory Enterprise Docker registry. To learn more, contact the Ory team.
Quickstart
Install the Ory CLI and
create a new project to try Ory OAuth2 & OpenID Connect.
bash
# Install the Ory CLI if you do not have it yet:bash<(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ory/meta/master/install.sh)-b. ory
sudomv ./ory /usr/local/bin/
# Sign in or sign upory auth
# Create a new projectory create project --create-workspace "Ory Open Source"--name"GitHub Quickstart" --use-project
Try out the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow:
bash
ory create oauth2-client \--name"Client Credentials Demo"\ --grant-type client_credentials
# Note the client ID and secret from outputory perform client-credentials \ --client-id <your-client-id>\ --client-secret <your-client-secret># Note the access token from outputory introspect token <your-access-token>
Try out the OAuth 2.0 Authorize Code + OpenID Connect flow:
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
<a href="mailto:office@ory.com">office@ory.com</a> now!
We build Ory on several guiding principles when it comes to our architecture
design:
Minimal dependencies
Runs everywhere
Scales without effort
Minimize room for human and network errors
Ory's architecture is designed to run best on a Container Orchestration system
such as Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, and similar projects. Binaries are
small (5-15MB) and available for all popular processor types (ARM, AMD64, i386)
and operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows) without system
dependencies (Java, Node, Ruby, libxml, ...).
Ory Kratos: Identity and User Infrastructure and Management
Ory Kratos is an API-first Identity and User
Management system that is built according to cloud architecture best practices.
It implements core use cases that almost every software application needs to
deal with: Self-service Login and Registration, Multi-Factor Authentication
(MFA/2FA), Account Recovery and Verification, Profile, and Account Management.
Ory Hydra: OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server
Ory Hydra is an OpenID Certified™ OAuth2 and
OpenID Connect Provider which easily connects to any existing identity system by
writing a tiny "bridge" application. It gives absolute control over the user
interface and user experience flows.
Ory Oathkeeper: Identity & Access Proxy
Ory Oathkeeper is a BeyondCorp/Zero Trust
Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) with configurable authentication, authorization,
and request mutation rules for your web services: Authenticate JWT, Access
Tokens, API Keys, mTLS; Check if the contained subject is allowed to perform the
request; Encode resulting content into custom headers (X-User-ID), JSON Web
Tokens and more!
Ory Keto: Access Control Policies as a Server
Ory Keto is a policy decision point. It uses a
set of access control policies, similar to AWS IAM Policies, in order to
determine whether a subject (user, application, service, car, ...) is authorized
to perform a certain action on a resource.
OAuth2 and OAuth2 related specifications are over 400 written pages.
Implementing OAuth2 is easy, getting it right is hard. Ory Hydra is trusted by
companies all around the world, has a vibrant community and faces millions of
requests in production each day. Read the security guide for
more details on cryptography and security concepts.
Disclosing vulnerabilities
If you think you found a security vulnerability, please refrain from posting it
publicly on the forums, the chat, or GitHub. You can find all info for
responsible disclosure in our security.txt.
Telemetry
Our services collect summarized, anonymized data that can optionally be turned
off. Click here to learn more.
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