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Cerbos

  • 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
    • Scoped policies
    • Conditions
    • Variables
    • 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
  • Release Notes
    • v0.38.1
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    • v0.36.0
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  • Engineering
    • Why Cerbos runs as a separate process
Cerbos 0.38.1
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    • 0.54.0-prerelease
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    • 0.51.0
    • 0.50.0
    • 0.49.0
    • 0.48.0
    • 0.47.0
    • 0.46.0
    • 0.45.1
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    • 0.41.0
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    • 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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Deploy Cerbos as a service

This documentation is for a previous version of Cerbos. Choose 0.53.0 from the version picker at the top right or navigate to https://docs.cerbos.dev for the latest version.

You can use the Cerbos Helm chart to deploy Cerbos as a service inside your Kubernetes cluster. Refer to the Helm chart instructions for more details.

Cloud platforms Kubernetes sidecar
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