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Hydra offers OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Core 1.0 capabilities as a service. Hydra is different, because it works with any existing authentication infrastructure, not just LDAP or SAML. By implementing a consent app (works with any programming language) you build a bridge between Hydra and your authentication infrastructure.

Hydra is able to securely manage JSON Web Keys, and has a sophisticated policy-based access control you can use if you want to.

Hydra is suitable for green- (new) and brownfield (existing) projects. If you are not familiar with OAuth 2.0 and are working on a greenfield project, we recommend evaluating if OAuth 2.0 really serves your purpose. Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 is imperative in understanding what Hydra does and how it works.

Hydra implements Open Standards set by IETF:

and the OpenID Foundation:


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Hydra uses the security first OAuth2 and OpenID Connect SDK Fosite and the access control SDK Ladon.

Table of Contents

What is Hydra?

Hydra is a server implementation of the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework and the OpenID Connect Core 1.0. Existing OAuth2 implementations usually ship as libraries or SDKs such as node-oauth2-server or fosite, or as fully featured identity solutions with user management and user interfaces, such as Dex.

Implementing and using OAuth2 without understanding the whole specification is challenging and prone to errors, even when SDKs are being used. The primary goal of Hydra is to make OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0 better accessible.

Hydra implements the flows described in OAuth2 and OpenID Connect 1.0 without forcing you to use a "Hydra User Management" or some template engine or a predefined front-end. Instead it relies on HTTP redirection and cryptographic methods to verify user consent allowing you to use Hydra with any authentication endpoint, be it authboss, auth0.com or your proprietary PHP authentication.

Who is using it?

This is a curated list of Hydra adopters.

arduino.cc Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects. Hydra secures Arduino's developer platform.

Enterprise Edition

Hydra is available as an Apache 2.0-licensed Open Source technology. In enterprise environments however, there are numerous demands, such as

  • OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect consulting.
  • security auditing and certification.
  • auditable log trails.
  • guaranteed performance metrics, such as throughput per second.
  • management user interfaces.
  • ... and a wide range of narrow use cases specific to each business demands.

Gain access to more features and our security experts with our new enterprise edition of Hydra. Contact us now for more details.

Quickstart

This section is a quickstart guide to working with Hydra. In-depth docs are available as well:

  • The documentation is available on GitBook.
  • The REST API documentation is available at Apiary.
5 minutes tutorial: Run your very own OAuth2 environment

The tutorial teaches you to set up Hydra, a Postgres instance and an exemplary identity provider written in React using docker compose. It will take you about 5 minutes to complete the tutorial.

OAuth2 Flow
Installation

There are various ways of installing hydra on your system.

Download binaries

The client and server binaries are downloadable at releases. There is currently no installer available. You have to add the hydra binary to the PATH environment variable yourself or put the binary in a location that is already in your path (/usr/bin, ...). If you do not understand what that all of this means, ask in our chat channel. We are happy to help.

Using Docker

Starting the host is easiest with docker. The host process handles HTTP requests and is backed by a database. Read how to install docker on Linux, OSX or Windows. Hydra is available on Docker Hub.

You can use Hydra without a database, but be aware that restarting, scaling or stopping the container will lose all data:

$ docker run -d --name my-hydra -p 4444:4444 oryd/hydra
ec91228cb105db315553499c81918258f52cee9636ea2a4821bdb8226872f54b

Note: We had to create a new docker hub repository. Tags prior to 0.7.5 are available here.

Using the client command line interface: You can ssh into the hydra container and execute the hydra command from there:

$ docker exec -i -t <hydra-container-id> /bin/bash
# e.g. docker exec -i -t ec91228 /bin/bash

root@ec91228cb105:/go/src/github.com/ory/hydra# hydra
Hydra is a twelve factor OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider

[...]
Building from source

If you wish to compile hydra yourself, you need to install and set up Go 1.5+ and add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH. To do so, run the following commands in a shell (bash, sh, cmd.exe, ...):

go get github.com/ory/hydra
go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory/hydra
glide install
go install github.com/ory/hydra
hydra

Note: We changed organization name from ory-am to ory. In order to keep backwards compatibility, we did not rename Go packages.

Security

Why should I use Hydra? It's not that hard to implement two OAuth2 endpoints and there are numerous SDKs out there!

OAuth2 and OAuth2 related specifications are over 400 written pages. Implementing OAuth2 is easy, getting it right is hard. Hydra is trusted by companies all around the world, has a vibrant community and faces millions of requests in production each day. Of course, we also compiled a security guide with more details on cryptography and security concepts. Read the security guide now.

Reception

Hydra has received a lot of positive feedback. Let's see what the community is saying:

Nice! Lowering barriers to the use of technologies like these is important.

Pyxl101

OAuth is a framework not a protocol. The security it provides can vary greatly between implementations. Fosite (which is what this is based on) is a very good implementation from a security perspective: https://github.com/ory/fosite#a-word-on-security

abritishguy

[...] Thanks for releasing this by the way, looks really well engineered. [...]

olalonde

Documentation

Guide

The Guide is available on GitBook.

HTTP API documentation

The HTTP API is documented at Apiary.

Command line documentation

Run hydra -h or hydra help.

Develop

Developing with Hydra is as easy as:

go get github.com/ory/hydra
go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory/hydra
glide install
go test $(glide novendor)

Then run it with in-memory database:

DATABASE_URL=memory go run main.go host

Sponsors

Auth0.com We are proud to have Auth0 as a gold sponsor for Hydra. Auth0 solves the most complex identity use cases with an extensible and easy to integrate platform that secures billions of logins every year. At ORY, we use Auth0 in conjunction with Hydra for various internal projects.

Libraries and third-party projects

Official:

Community:

Blog posts & articles

Documentation

Overview

Package main Hydra OAuth2 & OpenID Connect Server

Please refer to the user guide for in-depth documentation: https://ory.gitbooks.io/hydra/content/

Hydra offers OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Core 1.0 capabilities as a service. Hydra is different, because it works with any existing authentication infrastructure, not just LDAP or SAML. By implementing a consent app (works with any programming language) you build a bridge between Hydra and your authentication infrastructure. Hydra is able to securely manage JSON Web Keys, and has a sophisticated policy-based access control you can use if you want to. Hydra is suitable for green- (new) and brownfield (existing) projects. If you are not familiar with OAuth 2.0 and are working on a greenfield project, we recommend evaluating if OAuth 2.0 really serves your purpose. Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 is imperative in understanding what Hydra does and how it works.

The official repository is located at https://github.com/ory/hydra

Schemes: http, https
Host:
BasePath: /
Version: Latest
License: Apache 2.0 https://github.com/ory/hydra/blob/master/LICENSE
Contact: ORY <hi@ory.am> https://www.ory.am

Consumes:
- application/json
- application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Produces:
- application/json

SecurityDefinitions:
- oauth2:
    type: oauth2
    authorizationUrl: /oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: /oauth2/token
    in: header
    flow: accessCode

Extensions:
---
x-request-id: string
---

swagger:meta

Directories

Path Synopsis
Package client implements the OAuth 2.0 Client functionality and provides http handlers, http clients and storage adapters.
Package client implements the OAuth 2.0 Client functionality and provides http handlers, http clients and storage adapters.
cmd
cli
Package firewall defines an API for validating access requests.
Package firewall defines an API for validating access requests.
pkg
Package policy offers management capabilities for access control policies.
Package policy offers management capabilities for access control policies.
Package SDK offers convenience functions for Go code around Hydra's HTTP APIs.
Package SDK offers convenience functions for Go code around Hydra's HTTP APIs.
Package warden decides if access requests should be allowed or denied.
Package warden decides if access requests should be allowed or denied.
group
Package group offers capabilities for grouping subjects together, making policy management easier.
Package group offers capabilities for grouping subjects together, making policy management easier.

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