Top all-time · #3670
ZITADEL
Company blog · zitadel.com/blogsecurityweb
ZITADEL is the company blog at zitadel.com, writing about security and web. Since 2022, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 67 times, most often “Zitadel v3: AGPL License, Streamlined Releases, and Platform Updates”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (25) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link ZITADEL's blog to point to its open-source identity product, which is often suggested as a Keycloak or Auth0 alternative. Some link its OAuth/OIDC explainers and Keycloak comparison posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 25 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ZITADEL is the identity infrastructure platform that is built for developers and works for all users and applications.
Most-linked posts?
- /9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2022-11-03
- Zitadel v3: AGPL License, Streamlined Releases, and Platform Updates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
- How to integrate ZITADEL as SSO provider to a self-hosted Nextcloud service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-08
- /blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-30
What Hacker News says?
Or https://zitadel.com/
Comment linking /
on “OAuth from First Principles”Submitted Are Magic Links Outdated? as a story · 135 points
HN discussionExcellent writing and diagrams! If you want to expand your knowledge beyond OAuth2 (and most probably you should if you want to design systems used by big guys from 0 to 1) , highly recommend to jump straight into OpenID Connect (OIDC) which is an identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0. Besides reading specs, Sascha Preibisch's videos on both OIDC and OAuth2 were the most useful to solidify a bigger picture for me…
Comment linking /
on “What's OAuth2, anyway?”Submitted JWT vs. Opaque Tokens as a story · 131 points
HN discussionAfter working with Keycloak for a couple of years I honestly got fed up with all it's quirks and started to look at alternatives, Authentik and many more looked promising but Zitadel[1] caught my eye and I've never looked back since. [1] https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak
Comment linking /blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak
on “Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx”Submitted Is public WiFi as dangerous as people claim? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHmm, maybe take a look at their website? https://zitadel.com/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support”Submitted Bypassing 2FA is getting easier as a story · 13 points
HN discussionHave a look at ZITADEL ( https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel or https://zitadel.com/ ), I think that does what you want. You can create multiple tenants (called Organizations) and you can setup security / login rules per organization such as enforcing MFA. Furthermore you can configure on each tenant a separate SSO and users are directly forwarded to their identity provider. When you first enter your username (could…
Comment linking /
on “Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support”Submitted Why security questions are useless and unsafe as a story · 9 points
HN discussionZitadel is switching its license from Apache to AGPL3, that’s at least one difference. The license change caught my attention because I also use Zitadel, this project is MIT. [0] https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-v3-announcement
Comment linking /blog/zitadel-v3-announcement
on “Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth”Submitted A spellchecker is leaking passwords as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLooks nice, we've been using https://zitadel.com/ and the journey to mutli-tennancy was fairly straight forward.
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth”Submitted Is Zero Trust worth the hype? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHey Adil. We're looking for a Go backend engineer and experience with cloud native architectures. Happy to connect. You can find the job here: https://zitadel.com/jobs
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)”Submitted Delegated Access Management as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSounds to me a bit like https://zitadel.com/
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization”Submitted An Identity Broker can facitilitate authentication as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you prefer an open source, and maybe more mature, alternative for multi tenant/b2b auth then have a look at https://zitadel.com (disclosure: work for zitadel)
Comment linking /
on “Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS”Submitted How to secure your Java application with OpenID Connect as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Keycloak is a great tool but definitely not has B2B features like user management for each business customer, self service and delegated access management as well as self service federation. (See also: https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak ) I might be misreading your post and/or the linked blog post, but I got the impression that both assume that different business customers will share the same KC realm an…
Comment linking /blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak
on “Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined”Submitted Children online are not safe anymore as a story · 7 points
HN discussionInteresting pricing model: https://zitadel.com/pricing/v2 Price per request isn't as common of an identity pricing model as MAU is. (Only applies if you host with them, of course. If you self-host, I believe it is free.)
Comment linking /pricing/v2
on “Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined”Submitted IMO – DNSSEC as a story · 7 points
HN discussion@mffap, are these the blog posts you are referencing? https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-vs-keycloak https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-vs-auth0
Comment linking /blog/zitadel-vs-auth0
on “Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined”Submitted Migrate Users from Keycloak to Zitadel as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheck out ZITADEL— It fuses the best features of Auth0 and Keycloak into a more modern, innovative package. (full disclosure, I'm part of the team) It's an open-source IAM solution. It offers a cloud-based SaaS option and can also be downloaded for self-hosting. You can try the hosted cloud version for free - https://zitadel.com/signin It provides: - authentication and authorization capabilities (including SSO, IdP…
Comment linking /blog/tags/successstory
on “Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users”Submitted Why Choose an Open Source Authentication Provider as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI found Nate Barbettini's video on OAuth and OpenID Connect incredibly insightful for understanding these topics. He explains everything so well- https://youtu.be/996OiexHze0 . Additionally, I'm part of the ZITADEL team, an open-source project that's free to download or use in our cloud offering. So, you can always tinker around with it as some others have already suggested. Our blog dives into various security topi…
Comment linking /chat
on “Ask HN: Any comprehensive courses on Auth?”Submitted It's Time to Ditch Passwords as a story · 6 points
HN discussion