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Updates to Cerbos
Cerbos v0.25
The latest release of Cerbos, v0.25, contains improvements to the Admin API to make administrative tasks easier and error-free.
When using database-backed policy stores, it's now possible to disable policies by name cerbosctl or the Admin API.
The DeleteSchema Admin API endpoint now returns the number of schemas deleted and does not throw an error if none were deleted.
Now Cerbos detects when a policy file has changed its identifiers via the Admin API and evicts the old state from the cache.
The Cerbos team had an amazing time at the CNSC conference! Our team met so many interesting people and had some great conversations.
Civo Navigate::Feb 7-8 (Tampa Bay, FL) Cerbos gave a talk on the topic of “Solving the never ending requirements of authorization” at the conference on February 8th.
The Notion Capital Cloud Challengers Report launch: Feb 9 (London, UK) Cerbos shared their forecasts for the next year, and have been named one of Europe’s top 100 early stage B2B SaaS/Cloud companies in The Notion Capital Cloud Challengers Report!
Blog highlights
How Cerbos helped Nook build secure and extensible roles and permissions
Nook delivers simplified SME payments and invoicing solutions, and provides integrated AP & AR for modern finance teams, and has currently processed over 7 million in payment volumes. Nook wanted to get roles and permissions right from the beginning, as well as enable business owners to handle authorization without the help of developers.
Supercharging your policy rules with self-service custom roles
We previously released a blog post exploring the topic of mapping business requirements to authorization policies. It laid the foundations for how to approach writing your authorization policies from the ground up and discussed different patterns for implementing each.
In this episode of the Modern Web podcast, listeners have the opportunity to hear from Cerbos' own Alex Olivier as he joins ThisDotLabs' Adam Barrett and Rob Ocel for a discussion about Cerbos. This must-listen episode is for developers and tech enthusiasts looking to centralize and improve their application's authorization layer and logic, and gain a deeper understanding of access controls and abstraction of permissions.
When it comes to designing core components of a software architecture one of the early decisions that need to be made is where to store the state of the application. The state is the persisted data about the resources inside a system and typically these would be kept in a database or some type of file system.
Authorization trends 2023: Delegation to specialized solutions & advancements in technology
A common thread with RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC solutions has been the decoupling of the logic from the application code base out into a standalone service that makes decisions for the entire application. This approach allows the logic to evolve independently of the code base and fits in perfectly with today’s heterogeneous service landscapes.
React Round Up podcast: User authorization with Cerbos
In this episode of the React Round Up podcast, listeners have the opportunity to hear from Cerbos' own Alex Olivier as he joins TJ VanToll to talk about Cerbos in more detail and what it can offer to its users. Additionally, Alex explains the process of testing and setting Cerbos up.
We want to give you a $100 Amazon gift card! We also want to talk to you about Cerbos and get your feedback, both what you like and dislike, what are your primary use cases, if you are missing any particular functionality or have suggestions on how you would like us to improve the product.