SYS:SOLUTIONS // Platform Engineering
Stop every team from building their own permission system
In a microservice architecture, authorization fragments across services. Each team builds their own permission checks, their own role tables, their own audit logs. Policies drift. Gaps emerge. Nobody has a complete picture of who can access what. InferaDB provides centralized authorization as a managed service your teams consume, not maintain.
Authorization fragmentation in microservice architectures
Every service has its own authorization logic. The billing service checks roles in its database. The content service has its own ACL table. The admin dashboard hardcodes permission checks. When someone asks "what can User X access across all services?" — nobody can answer. And building a centralized system in-house just creates another piece of infrastructure for your team to operate.
Duplicated logic
Authorization code is copy-pasted across services in different languages by different teams. Bugs are fixed in one service and remain in three others.
Policy drift
Without a central policy engine, each service interprets access rules differently. The same user gets different permissions depending on which service they hit.
No unified audit trail
When security needs to investigate an access incident, they have to correlate logs across a dozen services with different formats and retention policies.
One authorization service for your entire platform
InferaDB serves as the single source of truth for authorization across your entire platform. Your teams get an API they call — not infrastructure they operate. Every service queries the same engine, evaluates the same policies, and produces audit entries in the same ledger. Define policies once, enforce everywhere.
Unified policy language
Define all authorization logic in IPL — the Infera Policy Language. One schema for your entire platform, versioned and testable like code.
REST and gRPC APIs
Every service integrates via the same API. AuthZEN-compliant evaluation endpoints work with any language and framework. Three lines of middleware per service.
Centralized audit ledger
Every authorization decision across every service lands in a single, hash-chained audit trail. One place to investigate, one place to report.
Terraform provider for authorization infrastructure
Manage vaults, policies, clients, teams, and grants through Terraform. Authorization configuration lives in your infrastructure repo, reviewed through pull requests, applied through CI/CD pipelines. No ClickOps. No drift.
Policy changes without service interruption
Branch, test, and merge authorization policies like application code. Policy updates are applied atomically across all regions — every endpoint transitions to the new policy simultaneously. No rolling restarts, no inconsistency windows, no downtime.
Policy branching
Create branches to test policy changes against production data without affecting live traffic. Merge when validated.
Assertion testing
Write test assertions that validate policy behavior before deployment. CI fails if a policy change breaks expected access patterns.
Atomic rollout
All regions apply policy changes at the same revision. No split-brain, no stale policy evaluation.
Global authorization for global teams
InferaDB runs in the regions where your services run. Authorization decisions resolve locally — no cross-region round trips for reads. Policy changes propagate globally in under 50 milliseconds. Your services get consistent, low-latency authorization everywhere without you managing a single node.
Full visibility into every authorization decision
Platform teams need to know what their services are doing. InferaDB exposes a Prometheus metrics endpoint, OpenTelemetry trace spans for every authorization check, and Grafana-compatible dashboards out of the box. Monitor decision latency, error rates, and policy evaluation patterns across your entire platform from your existing observability stack.
How platform teams adopt InferaDB
No big-bang migration required. Teams adopt InferaDB incrementally using a strangler fig pattern — start with one service, prove the model, then roll out across the platform at your own pace.
Step 1: Start with one service
Pick one service with clear authorization needs. Point its permission checks at InferaDB's API. Validate behavior against your existing system in parallel.
Step 2: Define shared authorization schema
Model your platform's authorization in IPL. Define the resource types, relations, and policies that span services. Version it in your infrastructure repo alongside Terraform.
Step 3: Roll out incrementally
Each additional service adds three lines of middleware to call the InferaDB API. Migrate at whatever pace your teams are comfortable with — no coordination required.
Ready to centralize authorization?
One service. Every team. Every decision.
Replace fragmented per-service permission systems with a managed authorization service that scales with your platform.