Oathkeeper

Infrastructure

identity and access proxy

SHOW HN2018

174points
82comments
#219of 2,155 in 2018
Top 11%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

8 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.

Idea: 5 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interest in using it for internal sites behind OAuth

    From 1 comment
    • I'm currently looking how to protect internal websites used within our company behind github oauth (we're a small company and we all have a github account connected to the…
      wereHamster on HN
  • Excitement to try it, with licensing advantages over Azure App Proxy

    From 1 comment
    • I'm really excited to try this out. Microsoft's Azure App Proxy is a great technology, but it has licensing constraints that make it difficult to use with all user personas.
      youdontknowtho on HN

Objections

  • Project name shares that of an extremist group

    From 1 comment
    • Are you aware that this project shares a name with an extremist group[0]? I'm not sure how concerned you are about that, especially if you're not American, but I'd want to know…
      SauciestGNU on HN
  • Password recovery problems for the maker

    From 1 comment
    • > Well you just lost me. You are developing IAM components and you can't get basic password management correct? email has nothing to do with it, we are well past the point where…
      ibuildoss on HN

Requests

  • Add a Slack or chat channel for discussion

    From 1 comment
    • Do you have a Slack? I'm interested in OIDC and have some questions and interest in the user management component that is mentioned to be in the works.
      colemickens on HN
  • Documentation improvements

    From 1 comment
    • That's a really good point! I've tracked this as https://github.com/ory/docs/issues/29 We're a very small team, so it might take a while for us to tackle this (especially because…
      ibuildoss on HN

Questions

  • Whether it works for protecting internal sites behind GitHub OAuth

    From 1 comment
    • I'm currently looking how to protect internal websites used within our company behind github oauth (we're a small company and we all have a github account connected to the…
      wereHamster on HN

Alternatives named

  • Envoy

    From 1 comment
    • I have not used envoy extensively yet, but there are obviously many more options such as Apache2 + mod_oidc, Kong + oauth2 plugin, and so on. The main differentiator is that…
      ibuildoss on HN
  • Apache mod_oidc

    From 1 comment
    • I have not used envoy extensively yet, but there are obviously many more options such as Apache2 + mod_oidc, Kong + oauth2 plugin, and so on. The main differentiator is that…
      ibuildoss on HN
  • Kong OAuth2 plugin

    From 1 comment
    • I have not used envoy extensively yet, but there are obviously many more options such as Apache2 + mod_oidc, Kong + oauth2 plugin, and so on. The main differentiator is that…
      ibuildoss on HN
  • oauth2_proxy

    From 1 comment
    • Yes, this could definitely solve that. Another service which might be well suited for this specific task is: https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
      ibuildoss on HN
  • Azure App Proxy

    From 1 comment
    • I'm really excited to try this out. Microsoft's Azure App Proxy is a great technology, but it has licensing constraints that make it difficult to use with all user personas.
      youdontknowtho on HN

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