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Demos, implementation guides, product updates and broader takes on authorization, identity and security.
Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with Azure DevOps Pipelines
This guide shows you how to set up an Azure DevOps Pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with BitBucket Pipelines
This guide shows you how to set up a BitBucket Pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically
Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with GitLab Runners
This guide shows you how to set up a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
What is fine-grained authorization?
Fine-grained authorization explained. Learn how fine-grained access control uses attributes and conditions to decide access per resource and action, how it differs from coarse-grained control, the RBAC, ABAC and PBAC models behind it, real use cases, and how to implement it without building your own engine.
Agent skill for writing authorization policies in OpenCode
OpenCode is open source, self-hosted, and provider-agnostic, so the whole authorization policy workflow stays inside your security perimeter. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in OpenCode, drafting policies in plain English, validating against the real Cerbos compiler locally, and pairing the skill with AGENTS.md.
Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with Buildkite
This guide will help you set up a CI/CD pipeline in Buildkite to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
The authorization POC guide: What to test, who to involve, and how to decide
Most authorization POCs never reach production. This guide covers all details of a proper authorization proof of concept: scoping to one real service, measurable success criteria, stakeholder involvement, and baselines so the review produces a decision, not a debate.
Automating Cerbos Policy deployments with GitHub Actions
This guide shows you how to set up a GitHub Actions workflow to upload your Cerbos policies to a Cerbos Hub store automatically.
Agent skill for writing authorization policies in Pi
Pi is the open-source self-extensible coding agent built around the Agent Skills standard from the start. This guide walks through installing the Cerbos policy skill in Pi, invoking it with /skill:cerbos-policy, drafting authorization policies in plain English, and validating against the real Cerbos compiler in Docker.
You have Okta. What authorization capabilities do you still need?
You've standardized on Okta SSO for authentication. Here's where Okta falls short on authorization, and how to evaluate dedicated authorization solutions.
Mastering hierarchy-based permissions with Cerbos: Policy-defined roles vs. dynamic attributes
Learn how to handle authorization in applications with hierarchical data. In this post, we explore two approaches to implementing hierarchy-based permissions. Both methods leverage Attribute-Based Access Control.
The Cerbos Hub effect matrix: read your authorization policy at a glance
See how the Cerbos Hub effect matrix turns authorization policy files into a permissions grid of roles and actions, with allowed, denied, and conditional outcomes. Read what each role can do without parsing raw policy, drill into ABAC conditions, and spot over-permissive wildcard rules in review.
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