cerbos 0.15.1
SDK for working with Cerbos: an open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: >=3.10

Cerbos Python SDK
=================

Python clients for accessing [Cerbos](https://cerbos.dev).

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

## Usage

This library is available from PyPI as `cerbos`. It supports both async and non-async modes.

```sh
pip install cerbos
```

There are two clients available; [gRPC](#grpc-client) and [HTTP](#http-client). New projects should use the gRPC client.

### gRPC Client

(Available from v0.8.0 onwards)

**Making a request**

```python
from cerbos.sdk.grpc.client import CerbosClient
from cerbos.engine.v1 import engine_pb2
from cerbos.request.v1 import request_pb2
from google.protobuf.struct_pb2 import Value

principal = engine_pb2.Principal(
    id="john",
    roles={"employee"},
    policy_version="20210210",
    attr={
        "department": Value(string_value="marketing"),
        "geography": Value(string_value="GB"),
        "team": Value(string_value="design"),
    },
)

resource = engine_pb2.Resource(
    id="XX125",
    kind="leave_request",
    attr={
        "id": Value(string_value="XX125"),
        "department": Value(string_value="marketing"),
        "geography": Value(string_value="GB"),
        "team": Value(string_value="design"),
        "owner": Value(string_value="john"),
    }
)

plan_resource = engine_pb2.PlanResourcesInput.Resource(
    kind="leave_request",
    policy_version="20210210"
)

with CerbosClient("localhost:3593", tls_verify=False) as c:
    # Check a single action on a single resource
    if c.is_allowed("view", principal, resource):
        # perform some action
        pass

    # Get the query plan for "view" action
    plan = c.plan_resources(action="view", principal=principal, resource=plan_resource)
````

**Async usage**

```python
from cerbos.sdk.grpc.client import AsyncCerbosClient

async with AsyncCerbosClient("localhost:3593", tls_verify=False) as c:
    ...

    allowed = await c.is_allowed("view:public", p, r)
    print(allowed)

    # Get the query plan for "view" action
    ...
    plan = await c.plan_resources("view", p, rd)
    print(plan.filter.to_json())

```

**Admin API**

There is also a client available for interacting with the Admin API. See [the docs](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/api/admin_api.html) for information on how to configure your PDP to enable this.

```python
from cerbos.policy.v1 import policy_pb2
from cerbos.sdk.grpc.client import AdminCredentials, AsyncCerbosAdminClient

admin_credentials = AdminCredentials(username="admin", password="some_password")
async with AsyncCerbosAdminClient("localhost:3593", admin_credentials=admin_credentials) as c:
    await c.add_or_update_policy(
        [
            policy_pb2.Policy(
                api_version="api.cerbos.dev/v1",
                principal_policy=policy_pb2.PrincipalPolicy(
                    principal="terry", version="default"
                ),
            )
        ]
    )
```

**Connecting to a Unix domain socket**

```python
with CerbosClient("unix:/var/cerbos.sock", tls_verify=False) as c:
  ...
```

**Enabling TLS**

`tls_verify` can either be the certificate location (string) or a boolean. If `True`, it'll look for the file at the location specified by the environment variable `SSL_CERT_FILE`, else the default OS location.

```python
with CerbosClient("localhost:3593", tls_verify=True) as c:
  ...
```

```python
with CerbosClient("localhost:3593", tls_verify="path/to/tls.crt") as c:
  ...
```

**Optional channel arguments**

You can pass additional options in the `channel_options` dict.
Available options are described [here](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/7536d8a849c0096e4c968e7730306872bb5ec674/include/grpc/impl/grpc_types.h).
The argument is of type `dict[str, Any]` where the `Any` value must match the expected type defined in the previous link.

IMPORTANT: We use the config key `grpc.service_config` to set service-specific configuration (retry policies, backoffs etc) within the nested JSON field. Passing this as a `channel_options` key will override that configuration entirely. We recommend leaving this untouched, however, if you need to pass custom config, ensure you pass the entire existing dict along with the desired updates (this can be found within the `AsyncClientBase.__init__` method).

NOTE: We provide this as a generic method to set arbitrary options for particular use cases.
For purely demonstrative purposes, our example below overrides `grpc.ssl_target_name_override`, which is certainly not recommended practice for production applications.

```python
opts = {
    "grpc.ssl_target_name_override": "localhost"
}
with CerbosClient("localhost:3593", tls_verify=True, channel_options=opts) as c:
  ...
```

### HTTP client

We maintain this for backwards compatibility. It is recommended to use the [gRPC client](#grpc-client).

**Making a request**

```python
from cerbos.sdk.model import *
from cerbos.sdk.client import CerbosClient

with CerbosClient("https://localhost:3592", debug=True, tls_verify=False) as c:
    p = Principal(
        "john",
        roles={"employee"},
        policy_version="20210210",
        attr={"department": "marketing", "geography": "GB", "team": "design"},
    )

    # Check a single action on a single resource
    r = Resource(
        "XX125",
        "leave_request",
        policy_version="20210210",
        attr={
            "id": "XX125",
            "department": "marketing",
            "geography": "GB",
            "team": "design",
            "owner": "john",
        },
    )

    allowed = c.is_allowed("view:public", p, r)
    print(allowed)

    # Get the query plan for "view" action
    rd = ResourceDesc("leave_request", policy_version="20210210")
    plan = c.plan_resources("view", p, rd)
    print(plan.filter.to_json())
```

**Async usage**

```python
from cerbos.sdk.model import *
from cerbos.sdk.client import AsyncCerbosClient

async with AsyncCerbosClient("https://localhost:3592", debug=True, tls_verify=False) as c:
    ...

    # Check a single action on a single resource
    ...
    allowed = await c.is_allowed("view:public", p, r)
    print(allowed)

    # Get the query plan for "view" action
    ...
    plan = await c.plan_resources("view", p, rd)
    print(plan.filter.to_json())

```

**Connecting to a Unix domain socket**

Use `unix+http:///path/to/sock` for HTTP over UDS or `unix+https:///path/to/sock` for HTTPS over UDS.

```python
with CerbosClient("unix+https:///var/cerbos.sock", debug=True, tls_verify=False) as c:
  ...
```

**Testing with [TestContainers](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python)**

NOTE: Requires `cerbos[testcontainers]` dependency to be installed.

```python
from cerbos.sdk.client import CerbosClient
from cerbos.sdk.container import CerbosContainer

container = CerbosContainer()
policy_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "store")
container.with_volume_mapping(policy_dir, "/policies")

with container:
    container.wait_until_ready()

    host = container.http_host()
    with CerbosClient(host) as c:
        ...
```


See the tests available in the `tests` directory for more examples.

### Cerbos Hub

To interact with a [Cerbos Hub](https://www.cerbos.dev/product-cerbos-hub) managed store, obtain a set of credentials for the store from the Cerbos Hub UI. Save the credentials as environment variables named `CERBOS_HUB_CLIENT_ID` and `CERBOS_HUB_CLIENT_SECRET`.

```python
from cerbos.sdk.hub import util
from cerbos.sdk.hub.store import AsyncCerbosHubStoreClient
from cerbos.sdk.hub.store_model import ConditionUnsatisfiedError

# For non-async use cases, use CerbosHubStoreClient instead
async with AsyncCerbosHubStoreClient() as client:
    contents = util.zip_directory(Path("your", "policy", "repo"))
    try:
        response = await client.replace_files("YOUR_STORE_ID", "Upload policy repo", contents, version_must_equal=42)
        print(f"New store version is {response.new_store_version()}")
    except ConditionUnsatisfiedError as e:
        print(f"Operation failed. Current store version is {e.current_store_version}")
```


## Contributing

The gRPC client uses protoc generated python classes from definitions retrieved from our [buf registry](https://buf.build/cerbos/cerbos-api).
When making changes to this library, be sure to run the `./proto/generate_protos.sh` to update definitions and generate python classes.

## Get help

- Visit the [Cerbos website](https://cerbos.dev)
- Read the [documentation](https://docs.cerbos.dev)
- [Join the Cerbos community on Slack](http://go.cerbos.io/slack)
- Email us at help@cerbos.dev