**ZITADEL** is a "Cloud Native Identity and Access Management" solution built for the cloud era. ZITADEL uses a modern software stack consisting of [**Golang**](https://golang.org/), [**Angular**](https://angular.io/) and [**CockroachDB**](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/) as sole storage and follows an event sourced pattern.
We built **ZITADEL** not only with the vision of becoming a great open source project but also as a superb platform to support developers building their applications, without need to handle secure user login and account management themselves.
We built **ZITADEL** around the idea that the IAM should be easy to deploy and scale. That's why we tried to reduce external systems as much as possible.
For example, **ZITADEL** is event sourced but it does not rely on a pub/sub system to function. Instead we built all the functionality right into one binary.
**ZITADEL** only needs [**Kubernetes**](https://kubernetes.io/) for orchestration and [**CockroachDB**](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/) as storage.
You can run an automatically operated **ZITADEL** instance on a CNCF compliant Kubernetes cluster of your choice:
- [CRD Mode on an existing k8s cluster](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/installation/crd)
- [GitOps Mode on an existing k8s cluster](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/installation/gitops)
- [GitOps Mode on VM/bare-metal](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/installation/managed-dedicated-instance) using [ORBOS](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/installation/orbos)
- **ZITADEL Cloud:** [**ZITADEL.ch**](https://zitadel.ch) is our shared cloud service hosted in Switzerland. [Get started](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/guides/usage/get-started) and try the free tier, including already unlimited users and all necessary security features.
- **ZITADEL Enterprise:** We operate and support a private instance of **ZITADEL** for you. [Get in touch!](https://zitadel.ch/contact/)
See our [Documentation](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/quickstarts/introduction) to get started with ZITADEL quickly. Let us know, if you are missing a language or framework in the [Q&A](https://github.com/caos/zitadel/discussions/1717).
Use [Console](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/manuals/introduction) or our [APIs](https://docs.zitadel.ch/docs/apis/introduction) to setup organizations, projects and applications.
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
