**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.
We provide a cloud service [**ZITADEL.ch**](https://zitadel.ch) where people can register their own organization. There is a **free tier** including unlimited users and all the security features you need.
**ZITADEL** is free open source software under [Apache 2.0](##License) managed by [CAOS](https://caos.ch). We provide our community access to ZITADEL releases at no cost and welcome all contributions.
If our cloud service or running **ZITADEL** on your own infrastructure does not work for you, we are happy to run a private instance of **ZITADEL** for you or provide you with our support services. [Get in touch!](https://zitadel.ch/contact/)
Details need to be announced, but feel free to contribute already. As long as you are okay with accepting to contribute under this projects OSS [License](##License) you are fine.
We already have documentation specific [guidelines](./site/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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.
