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Frontier is an identity and access management tool designed to help organizations secure their systems and data. With Frontier, you can manage user authentication and authorization across all your applications and services, ensuring that only authorized users have access to your valuable resources.

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Key Features

Discover why users choose Frontier as their authorization server

How can I get started?

Installation

Install Frontier on macOS, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and on any machine. Refer this for installations.

Binary (Cross-platform)

Download the appropriate version for your platform from releases page. Once downloaded, the binary can be run from anywhere. You don’t need to install it into a global location. This works well for shared hosts and other systems where you don’t have a privileged account. Ideally, you should install it somewhere in your PATH for easy use. /usr/local/bin is the most probable location.

macOS

frontier is available via a Homebrew Tap, and as downloadable binary from the releases page:

brew install raystack/tap/frontier

To upgrade to the latest version:

brew upgrade frontier

Linux

frontier is available as downloadable binaries from the releases page. Download the .deb or .rpm from the releases page and install with sudo dpkg -i and sudo rpm -i respectively.

Windows

frontier is available via scoop, and as a downloadable binary from the releases page:

scoop bucket add frontier https://github.com/raystack/scoop-bucket.git

To upgrade to the latest version:

scoop update frontier

Docker

We provide ready to use Docker container images. To pull the latest image:

docker pull raystack/frontier:latest

To pull a specific version:

docker pull raystack/frontier:0.11.3

Usage

Frontier is purely API-driven. It is very easy to get started with Frontier. It provides CLI, HTTP and GRPC APIs for simpler developer experience.

CLI

Frontier CLI is fully featured and simple to use, even for those who have very limited experience working from the command line. Run frontier --help to see list of all available commands and instructions to use.

List of commands

frontier --help

Print command reference

frontier reference

API

Frontier provides a fully-featured GRPC and HTTP API to interact with Frontier server. Both APIs adheres to a set of standards that are rigidly followed. Please refer to proton for GRPC API definitions.

Contribute

Development of Frontier happens on GitHub, and we are grateful to the community for contributing bugfixes and improvements.

Read our contribution guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Frontier.

To help you get your feet wet and get you familiar with our contribution process, we have a list of good first issues that contain bugs which have a relatively limited scope. This is a great place to get started.

This project exists thanks to all the contributors.

License

Frontier is Apache 2.0 licensed.