Run the PDP (Policy Decision Point)

Permit provides you with a Policy Decision Point, which functions as your microservice for authorization. The PDP is provided as a docker container ready for you to use, or as a cloud version for quick experimentation.

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Container PDP

Please follow the steps below to install and run the container on your local machine.

Pulling PDP container from Docker Hub

If you do not have Docker installed as of yet, click here to install Docker.

docker pull permitio/pdp-v2:latest

Running the container

Remember to replace <YOUR_API_KEY> with the API Key you obtained.

docker run -it -p 7766:7000 --env PDP_DEBUG=True --env PDP_API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY> permitio/pdp-v2:latest

info

Congratulations! You should now have a PDP container running. You can always check the status of the container by typing docker ps in your terminal.

Cloud PDP

It is extremely simple to utilize the cloud PDP. As part of the initialization of the Permit instance, you need to pass the cloud PDP URL.

REMEMBER

The cloud PDP is great for quick experimentation with Permit, to learn how the service works, and to quickly integrate the SDK.

In production deployments, it is best to deploy the Docker Container PDP for better latency and availability.

For time being, the Cloud PDP is NOT compatible with Attribute-based Access Control policies (ABAC) ** and also Relationship-based Access Control **(ReBAC)** policies.

// This line initializes the SDK and connects your app
// to the Permit.io Cloud PDP.

const permit = new Permit({
  pdp: "https://cloudpdp.api.permit.io",
  // your API Key
  token: "[YOUR_API_KEY]",
});