Ory Oathkeeper
Identity and access proxy, written in Go, that authenticates and authorizes HTTP requests against access rules before they reach an upstream service.
www.ory.sh/oathkeeperrepositorydocspricing
Ory Oathkeeper is an identity and access proxy written in Go. It sits in front of HTTP services, authenticates each request and checks it against access rules before the request reaches the upstream service. The README says it works as an API gateway plugin or standalone proxy, and names Ambassador, Envoy, AWS API Gateway and Nginx as integrations. It needs no database or other persistent storage. The install guide covers Homebrew, a shell install script, Scoop, Docker, Helm charts and binary downloads, and a build from source.
Worth knowing
The Ory Network offers Oathkeeper as a managed service. An Enterprise License build adds features the open source version does not have.
Sources
- 2026-11-03: name
github.com/ory/oathkeeper/blob/master/README.md - 2026-11-03: links
www.ory.sh/oathkeeper - 2026-11-03: links, License, Written in, GitHub stars
github.com/ory/oathkeeper - 2026-11-03: links, Runs as
www.ory.com/docs/oss/oathkeeper - 2026-11-03: Runtime, Install with
www.ory.com/docs/oathkeeper/install - 2026-11-03: Last release
github.com/ory/oathkeeper/releases/tag/v26.2.0 - 2026-11-03: First release
github.com/ory/oathkeeper/releases - 2026-11-03: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/ory/oathkeeper/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Headquarters
www.ory.com/legal/privacy - 2026-11-03: links
www.ory.com/pricing