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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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