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  • Getting started
    • What is Cerbos?
    • Quickstart
    • Tutorial
      • Intro
      • Running locally
      • Resource definition
      • Calling Cerbos
      • Testing policies
      • Adding conditions
      • Derived roles
      • Principal policies
      • Attribute schema
      • Integrating Cerbos
    • Installation
      • Binaries
      • Container
      • Helm chart
  • Cerbos API
    • Using the API
    • Admin API
  • Policies
    • Policy authoring
    • Derived roles
    • Resource policies
    • Principal policies
    • Role policies
    • Scoped policies
    • Scope permissions
    • Conditions
    • Variables and constants
    • Outputs
    • Schemas
    • Validating and testing
    • Best practices
  • Configuration
    • Audit
    • AuxData
    • Engine
    • Observability (metrics and traces)
    • Schema
    • Server
    • Storage
    • Telemetry
  • Deployment patterns
    • Cloud platforms
    • Kubernetes service
    • Kubernetes sidecar
    • Kubernetes daemonset
    • Serverless/FaaS environments
    • Systemd service
  • CLI
    • cerbos
    • cerbosctl
  • Recipes
    • Example apps
      • Photo-share application
      • Demo of securing a REST API with Cerbos
      • Modelling a multi-tenant SaaS with Cerbos
      • Admin API demo with Go and React
    • Authentication integration
      • Auth0
      • FusionAuth
      • JWT
      • Magic
      • Okta
      • AWS Cognito
    • ORM integration
      • Prisma
      • SQLAlchemy
    • Checking permissions in your UI
    • AI integration
      • RAG authorization
  • Release Notes
    • v0.49.0
    • v0.48.0
    • v0.47.0
    • Archives
      • v0.46.0
      • v0.45.1
      • v0.45.0
      • v0.44.0
      • v0.43.0
      • v0.42.0
      • v0.41.0
      • v0.40.0
      • v0.39.0
      • v0.38.1
      • v0.37.0
      • v0.36.0
      • v0.35.1
      • v0.34.0
      • v0.33.0
      • v0.32.0
      • v0.31.0
      • v0.30.0
      • v0.29.0
      • v0.28.0
      • v0.27.0
      • v0.26.0
      • v0.25.0
      • v0.24.0
      • v0.23.1
      • v0.23.0
      • v0.22.0
      • v0.21.0
      • v0.20.0
      • v0.19.1
      • v0.19.0
      • v0.18.0
      • v0.17.0
      • v0.16.0
      • v0.15.1
      • v0.15.0
      • v0.14.0
      • v0.13.0
      • v0.12.0
      • v0.11.0
      • v0.10.0
      • v0.9.1
      • v0.9.0
      • v0.8.0
      • v0.7.0
      • v0.6.0
      • v0.5.0
  • Glossary
    • Glossary of Cerbos terms
  • Engineering
    • Why Cerbos runs as a separate process
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    • 0.41.0
    • 0.40.0
    • 0.39.0
    • 0.38.1
    • 0.37.0
    • 0.36.0
    • 0.35.1
    • 0.34.0
    • 0.33.0
    • 0.32.0
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Cerbos CLI

Every Cerbos release ships with two binaries:

cerbos

The Cerbos server (PDP) and the compiler/test runner

cerbosctl

Command line utility to interact with Cerbos PDP instances that have the Admin API enabled

Systemd service cerbos
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