Welcome to FerrisKey

About FerrisKey

FerrisKey is an IAM (Identity and Access Management) solution designed to address modern cloud-native challenges: multi-tenant isolation, dynamic scalability, and seamless integration into distributed architectures. We developed it to offer:

• Optimal performance thanks to a Rust core, ensuring execution speed and low memory footprint.
• Enhanced security through Rust’s memory guarantees and proven practices (cryptography, secrets management, JWT/OIDC).
• Extensibility and modularity via a hexagonal architecture (ports & adapters) facilitating the addition of new features and continuous integration.

Why Rust?

Rust was chosen for:

1. Memory safety: elimination of common errors (use-after-free, data races) at compile time.
2. High performance: absence of garbage collector and low-level optimizations.
3. Safe concurrency: ownership/borrowing model that simplifies writing parallel code without fear of data races.

Our Goals

1. Ease of use: intuitive web interface and ergonomic CLI.
2. Interoperability: native support for Helm, Kubernetes Operator, Terraform Provider.
3. Transparency and open-source: open code, comprehensive documentation, and active community.
4. Continuous evolution: user feedback guiding our roadmap and regular releases.