Configure Permission Service

Using the Ory CLI, you can quickly adjust the configuration of the Ory Cloud Permission Service and apply config from the Cloud environment to self-hosted Ory Keto instances.

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Ory Keto is the open-source project that powers the Ory Cloud Permission Service.

This feature is useful for fluently moving your local setup to the Cloud, or for working on the configuration and testing different settings in the safety of the local development environment.

To work with the Ory Cloud Permission Service, you must have an active Ory Cloud project. Use the CLI or the Ory Console to create one.

Export Configuration from Ory Cloud

To get your project's Permission Service configuration, run this command:

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You must be signed in to an Ory Cloud account to perform this action. Read this document to learn more.

## List all available projects
ory list projects

## Get config
ory get permission-config <project-id> --format yaml

The --format flag defines the format of the output file. You can choose one of yaml ,json, or json-pretty.

Getting the configuration in the YAML format produces output that is ready to use with self-hosted Ory Keto.

Export to File

For a convenient way to get the Permission Service configuration working in self-hosted Ory Keto, save the configuration to a YAML file.

Run this command:

ory get permission-config <project-id> --format yaml > identity-config.yaml

Import Configuration to Ory Cloud

To start using the configuration from a self-hosted Ory Keto instance in the Ory Cloud Permission Service, import the configuration file with the CLI:

ory update permission-config <project-id> --file config.yaml

Adjust Specific Keys

You can adjust specific keys in the configuration using the ory patch CLI command.

Running this sample command sets the /limit/max_read_depth key value to 3:

ory patch permission-config <project-id> \
  --replace '/limit/max_read_depth=3'

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Read this document to learn more about adjusting project configuration with the Ory CLI.