Deployment

Deploy Cerbos on Azure Container Apps

Run the Cerbos PDP as a managed container on Azure Container Apps with built-in scaling and revision management.

Managed containers

Deploy the Cerbos container image to Azure Container Apps without managing underlying infrastructure or orchestrators

Revision management

Container Apps manages revisions automatically, enabling traffic splitting between Cerbos versions during upgrades

Scale-to-zero

Scale Cerbos replicas based on HTTP traffic, including scaling to zero when there are no incoming requests

What is Cerbos?

Cerbos is an open-source authorization layer that decouples access control from your application code. It runs as a stateless Policy Decision Point (PDP) that evaluates fine-grained policies at request time.

Authorization policies are written in human-readable YAML supporting RBAC, ABAC, and conditional rules. They can be updated, tested, and deployed independently of your application.

Deploying Cerbos via Azure Container Apps gives you a production-ready authorization service that scales horizontally and fits naturally into your existing infrastructure and observability stack.

Policy-as-codeHuman-readable YAML policies managed like source code Scalable PDPStateless policy decision point with sub-millisecond latency Centralized managementManage, test, and deploy policies from a single control plane

How to deploy Cerbos on Azure Container Apps

Create the container app, Run az containerapp create with the official Cerbos container image and configure ingress on the HTTP port.
Configure policy loading, Set environment variables to point Cerbos at a Git repository or Cerbos Hub for policy storage.
Configure scaling rules, Set minimum and maximum replica counts and scaling triggers based on your traffic patterns.
Connect your application, Use a Cerbos SDK to send authorization checks to the container app's ingress endpoint.

FAQ

How do I deploy Cerbos on Azure Container Apps?

Create a container app using `az containerapp create` with the official Cerbos container image. Configure ingress to expose the HTTP port and set environment variables for policy loading.