Canonical Identity documentation

Canonical Identity is a suite of identity and access management (IAM) solutions provided by Canonical. It is designed to be a highly modular, secure, and scalable ecosystem that provides centralized authentication, authorization, and access governance controls across diverse infrastructures.

Choose your solution

Canonical Identity Platform

Ory-based IAM stack - Cloud-native identity platform engineered for high-scale OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 workloads.

Canonical Identity Platform
Charmed Authentik

Unified IdP & LDAP gateway - Versatile identity provider and directory gateway uniting OIDC and LDAP protocol support.

Charmed Authentik

Unsure which solution fits your use case? Read Choosing an identity solution for a side-by-side comparison. New to identity protocols? Start with Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).