Cerbos Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Cerbos hosting and move authorization decisions out of your application code. xCloud runs the pinned Cerbos 0.56.0 official image as a single container, publishes the HTTP API and API explorer over HTTPS, exposes the gRPC API on a TCP port, and mounts a persistent policy volume — policy changes are picked up within seconds with no restart.

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What is Cerbos?

Cerbos is an open-source authorization policy decision point. Your applications send it a question — may this principal perform this action on this resource? — and it answers from policies written as YAML.

This deployment runs the official image as one container with an HTTP API and API explorer, a gRPC API and a policy directory on a persistent volume. Cerbos is licensed under Apache-2.0.

From Sign-Up to a Live Policy Server In Just 3 Easy Steps

A policy decision point normally means a container, a policy directory, a TLS-terminating proxy and a domain before the first check request. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Cerbos from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields and no generated credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Cerbos image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no database, mount the cerbos_policies volume at /policies, publish the HTTP API and API explorer over HTTPS and expose the gRPC API on a public TCP port. Anonymous telemetry is turned off.
Step 03
Add Policies And Try A Check
Open your HTTPS Cerbos URL to reach the API explorer; the install shows the HTTP API base URL, health check and gRPC address. Then copy your YAML policies into the container over SSH with docker cp — the server loads them without a restart.

Everything Cerbos Does, On Your Own Server

Cerbos runs in full here: an authorization policy server on your own domain, reading YAML policies from a volume you own.

RBAC And ABAC Decisions
Centralise role-based and attribute-based authorization decisions outside your application code.
Policies As YAML
Write policies as YAML with derived roles, conditions and query plans, and keep them in version control.
Live Policy Reloads
Policy changes are picked up within seconds with no restart; this was checked by adding a policy to the running server.
Built-In API Explorer
An API explorer is served at the site root for trying check requests.
HTTP And gRPC APIs
The REST API is under /api with health at /_cerbos/health, and a gRPC endpoint serves service-to-service calls.
Persistent Policy Volume
The cerbos_policies volume survives an xCloud Restart; the same decisions were returned after a restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Policy Server 24/7

Managed hosting for Cerbos, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Cerbos 0.56.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Single container, no database
HTTP API and gRPC endpoint
Anonymous telemetry turned off
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Cerbos

Centralise RBAC
Keep role-based access rules in one policy set instead of scattered if-statements across services.
Add attribute-based rules
Express conditions on attributes of the principal and the resource, with derived roles, in YAML.
Serve many services from one server
Let backend services call the gRPC endpoint for decisions while browser apps from your domain use the HTTP API.
Review policies like code
Keep policies in version control and copy them into the volume, so authorization changes go through the same review as code.

Cerbos vs Alternatives

OpenFGA: OpenFGA is a relationship-based authorization system; Cerbos decides from YAML policies written against roles and attributes.
Keycloak: Keycloak is an identity and login provider; Cerbos has no accounts or login and only answers authorization questions.
Authorization checks in application code: Checks written inline live in each service; Cerbos moves them into policies that are versioned and reloaded separately.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Cerbos hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Cerbos sits alongside the services that call it.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Cerbos itself is licensed under Apache-2.0.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Policy Server?

Cerbos on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in?

There is no sign-in. Cerbos has no user accounts; protect access at your proxy or firewall if needed.

How do I add policies?

Copy YAML policy files into the policy volume over SSH, for example with docker cp. Cerbos watches the directory and reloads without a restart.

Why is every check denied after install?

The policy store starts empty, so every check is denied until policies are added.

What runs alongside Cerbos?

Nothing. It is a single container with no database.

Who can send check requests?

Anyone who can reach the domain or the gRPC port. The admin API is off, so policies cannot be changed through the API; add Basic Auth or IP restriction in front of the domain if it should not be public.

How is the gRPC port exposed?

The gRPC API (plain HTTP/2) is published on a public TCP port. You open your own firewall for it, ideally restricted to your application servers.

Can browser apps call the API?

Calls from the site's own domain are allowed; add one more origin with EXTRA_CORS_ORIGIN and redeploy.

Does the API explorer need internet access?

The explorer loads its viewer script from unpkg.com, an upstream external dependency.

What should I back up?

The cerbos_policies volume, or your policy files from version control.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Cerbos?

No. The template pins Cerbos 0.56.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 21 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Cerbos?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Cerbos project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Cerbos project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.