ory/ladon
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A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. observed · 2026-09-24
Health v2 · maintenance only
64/100
- Activity 92
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4022
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 53
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2458 stars · 224 forks observed · 2026-09-24
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Ladon is a Go SDK for policy-based access control (authorization), inspired by AWS IAM policies. It provides fine-grained, condition-based policy evaluation for multi-tenant, distributed, and IoT environments, as an alternative to RBAC and ACLs.
Use cases
- implement fine-grained authorization in a Go microservice
- enforce AWS IAM-style access control policies
- build multi-tenant permission checks with conditions
- replace RBAC or ACLs with policy-based access control
- add authorization to IoT device access management
- evaluate who can perform which action on which resource
When to choose
- you need fine-grained, condition-based authorization in Go
- you want AWS IAM-like policy semantics in your own application
- you're building multi-tenant or distributed systems needing centralized policy decisions
When to avoid
- you need full authentication or identity management rather than just authorization
- you want a standalone authorization server rather than an embedded library
- you need a maintained solution with active development and broad storage adapters
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
authorization auth sdk security backend developer-tools apis go cross-platform access-control policy-engine aws-iam-inspired rbac acl microservices iot
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- readme: https://github.com/ory/ladon · fetched 2026-09-24 · 76ca24f03e8c
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- site_page: https://www.ory.com/docs/welcome · fetched 2026-08-29 · e6f2747eb4d2
- site_page: https://www.ory.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · e44652fde9f9
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- site_page: https://changelog.ory.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c8e6b35f30bb
- site_page: https://www.ory.com/integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · 966475eed325
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| ory/ladon | main | 64 |
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