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## We did it! 🎉

We are thrilled to announce the successful closing of our seed funding round led by <a href="https://nexusvp.com/" target="_blank">Nexus Venture Partners</a>!

This is our first time raising money, and we are stoked to have a fantastic partner on board for the next part of our journey. The newly gained funding and expertise in open source product-led solutions will help us bring a much desired open source alternative to Auth0 to the market.

Big thanks to Nexus VP for the faith and trust in [our team](/team) and product.

We want to sincerely say thank you to all the **supporters**, **early adoperts**, and **valued customers** from the whole ZITADEL team!

![](/blog/2022-06-08-fundraising-nexus-01.jpg)

## Press Release

**ZITADEL secures $2.5M to enhance its developer-first, open-source identity management platform**

**St. Gallen, Switzerland - Jun 1, 2022 -** ZITADEL, innovator of a transformative identity management platform, announces $2.5M in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. The funding will help ZITADEL provide developers with a much-needed open-source alternative for their identity management needs and evolve its solution, scale sales growth, and nurture the open-source community. The current market landscape consists of established but closed-source players, including Auth0, Okta, Firebase, AWS Cognito, and others.

ZITADEL’s founding vision was based on the creation of a streamlined, cloud-native identity management platform to speed time-to-market for software projects. Focused on the simplicity of integration, ready-to-use self-service features, a customizable and secure login with first-class support for passwordless authentication, and an API-first strategy, ZITADEL’s unique turnkey platform offers developers unprecedented flexibility.
Developers often spend countless hours creating, configuring, and operating complex authentication and authorization systems. ZITADEL, which is built mainly in the Go programming language, solves these problems with easy-to-use integrations in multiple languages and frameworks. This flexibility enables developers to utilize prebuilt features provided by ZITADEL to dramatically improve their productivity. In addition, ZITADEL’s capabilities address existing open-source projects which were not built for a cloud-native and serverless environment.

The ZITADEL team is working towards further enriching the solution’s enterprise-readiness. New capabilities include multi-tenancy, unlimited audit trails, improved ability to self-host, and support for serverless deployments, plus the potential to extend ZITADEL’s breadth with custom code created in WebAssembly. Combined with its cloud-native architecture, ZITADEL’s self-hosting capabilities allow privacy-focused customers to own and control their data by running a dedicated version. ZITADEL’s flexible model, with its span of smart efficiency enhancements, is already the go-to solution for numerous marquee enterprise customers.  
The generous free tier of ZITADEL’s cloud-hosted offering allows anybody to create a ZITADEL instance in under five minutes—without a credit card. In its ongoing commitment to deliver GDPR support to its customers, ZITADEL Cloud also provides the capability to define the country or geopolitical region in which to store their data.

“Amidst today's complex software projects, ZITADEL provides a turnkey solution that allows developers to get started easily with a secure login, user management, multi-factor authentication, social logins, authorization management, and great APIs. With ZITADEL, we provide an important component to improve the overall security of a project while reducing your time-to-market,” said ZITADEL Co-Founder and CEO, Florian Forster.
“We’re delighted to break new ground partnering with Florian and the ZITADEL team, our first-ever investment in a Swiss company. We believe the future of digital identities is passwordless. ZITADEL takes a developer-first, open-source approach to solving identity management. Its simple and easy-to-integrate building blocks help developers build secure authentication into their applications without requiring deep in-house expertise and resource commitment.” said Abhishek Sharma, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. “ZITADEL is the latest addition to the Nexus family of over a dozen marquee commercial open-source companies,” added Sharma.

### About ZITADEL

ZITADEL is the modern open\* alternative for Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito, as well as Keycloak, built for the container and serverless era. It provides customers a wide range of out-of-the-box features, including secure login, self-service, OpenID Connect, OAuth2.x, SAML2, branding, Passwordless with FIDO2, OTP, U2F, and an unlimited audit trail to improve the life of developers and developers. With its legal incorporation in Switzerland, ZITADEL is in the unique position of providing its cloud services even to customers with the strictest GDPR requirements. For more information visit [https://zitadel.com](https://zitadel.com), follow <a href="https://twitter.com/zitadel" target="_blank">@zitadel on Twitter</a>, or star the repository <a href="https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel" target="_blank">on GitHub</a>.

### About Nexus Venture Partners

Nexus Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm partnering with extraordinary entrepreneurs to help build product-first software companies. With $2 billion under management, Nexus operates as one team across the U.S. and India. The Nexus portfolio includes Apollo.io, Aryaka, Clover Health, Delhivery, Druva, FingerprintJS, Hasura, H2O.ai, Infra Market, Kaltura, MinIO, Observe.ai, Postman, Pubmatic, Quizizz, Rancher, Rapido, Sibros, TileDB, Turtlemint, Unacademy, WhitehatJr, and Zepto. For more information, visit <a href="https://nexusvp.com/" target="_blank">nexusvp.com</a> or follow <a href="https://twitter.com/NexusVP" target="_blank">@nexusvp</a> on Twitter.

Contact:  
Florian Forster  
florian@zitadel.com  
+41 43 215 27 44

## Press Coverage

- <a
    href="https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/07/zitadel-targets-developers-with-open-source-identity-management-platform/"
    target="_blank"
  >
    VentureBeat - June 7, 2022: Zitadel targets developers with open-source
    identity management platform
  </a>
- <a
    href="https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/american-vc-invests-2-5m-in-swiss-cybersecurity-startup"
    target="_blank"
  >
    startupticker.ch - June 9, 2022: American VC invests $2.5M in Swiss
    cybersecurity startup
  </a>
- <a
    href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zitadel-secures-2-5m-enhance-094800684.html"
    target="_blank"
  >
    yahoo!finance - June 10, 2022: ZITADEL Secures $2.5M to Enhance its
    Developer-First, Open-Source Identity Management Platform
  </a>


ZITADEL, innovator of a transformative identity management platform, announces $2.5M in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. The funding will help ZITADEL provide developers with a much-needed open-source alternative for their identity management needs and evolve its solution, scale sales growth, and nurture the open-source community.

ZITADEL secures $2.5M to enhance its developer-first, open-source identity management platform


## Description

The ZITADEL team gives an overview of what happend over the last months and what our roadmap for 2022. This is a highlight video from a [livestream](https://youtu.be/IyJrAf9JOJc) on February 24, 2022.

We will talk about Actions, Personal Access Tokens, E2E Testing, SAML2.0, and of course our rehaul of our cloud offering "V2" - and many more topics.

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      { name: "Query Side / Event sourcing", time: "4:26" },
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## References

- Watch the [full recording](https://youtu.be/IyJrAf9JOJc) of the livestream
- Explore our [roadmap](https://zitadel.com/roadmap)
- More about our plans for 2022 in our Blog ["6 New ways ZITADEL IAM will improve in the year 2022"](/blog/six-ways-zitadel-will-improve-2022)
- Read about ["New Personal Access Tokens (PAT): A game changer for Service Users"](/blog/new-personal-access-token)
- Our blog about ["SAML vs OIDC: Which Protocol is Best for Your Organization?"](/blog/saml-vs-oidc)
- Find a link to the new [Rust SDK](https://zitadel.com/docs/sdk-examples/introduction#libraries)
- Track the progress of the initial release of [ZITADEL CLI](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/3182)


Meet the team behind ZITADEL. We share what we have done over the last months and our plans for 2022. Highlights from our livestream on Feb 24, 2022.

Into the zitadel/zitadel | No 3.


## Description

We were busy since our last Into the CAOS and want to share some updates around ZITADEL and what is planned in the near future.

We will also talk about new features such as Metadata, Actions, new policies as well as what did not go so well.

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      { name: "Actions", time: "9:00" },
      { name: "Lockout policy", time: "17:00" },
      { name: "Query Side", time: "21:06" },
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      { name: "Native Backup", time: "28:19" },
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## References

- [Swisscom Cybersecurity Startup Challenge](https://www.swisscom.ch/en/magazine/start-up/startup-challenge-security/)
- [DINAcon Awards](https://awards.dinacon.ch/gewinner2021/)
- [API Documentation](https://zitadel.com/docs/apis/introduction/)
- [Internationalization Documentation](https://zitadel.com/docs/guides/manage/customize/texts#internationalization)
- [Smartive - Built with ZITADEL](https://zitadel.com/blog/success-story-smartive-bin)
- [Pentest results](https://zitadel.com/blog/pentest-results-h1-2021)

## Discuss features

- [Discussion: Metadata on Orgs](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/discussions/2454)
- [Discussion: Project settings](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/discussions/2263)


We were busy since our last Into the CAOS and want to share some updates around ZITADEL and what is planned in the near future.

Into the CAOS | No 2.


## Description

The team behind ZITADEL shares what we developed over the summer, what issues we encountered on the way, and what is planned in the near feature.

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      { name: "Query Optimization", time: "17:00" },
      { name: "Postmap rings 😂", time: "20:50" },
      { name: "OIDC RP Certification", time: "21:33" },
      { name: "Sentry", time: "26:10" },
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## References

- [Software Architecture / Query Models / CQRS](https://zitadel.com/docs/concepts/architecture/software)
- [Certification OIDC RP Library in Go](https://github.com/zitadel/oidc)
- [Examples / Templates](https://zitadel.com/docs/sdk-examples/introduction)


The team behind ZITADEL shares what we developed over the summer, what issues we encountered on the way, and what is planned in the near feature.

Into the CAOS | No 1.


## What is ZITADEL

ZITADEL is a "Cloud Native Identity and Access Management" solution built for the cloud era. ZITADEL uses a modern software stack consisting of Golang, Angular and CockroachDB as sole storage and follows an event sourced pattern.

<img
  src="/blog/2021-05-04-our-vision-for-zitadel-01.png"
  width="100%"
  alt="ZITADEL Architecture"
/>

We built ZITADEL not only with the vision of becoming a great open source project but also as a superb platform to support developers building their applications, without need to handle secure user login and account management themselves. By platform we mean a system where multiple parties can integrate custom use-cases for digital identities on top of solid core features. To enable easy integration into your business case, nearly all functions can be accessed via an API. With this we achieve a proper separation of concern and don’t need to integrate custom code within our codebase.

## What features does the platform provide?

### Single-Sign-On / Single-Sign-Out

Use the convenience of a single sign-on (SSO) solution to login with every possible service. ZITADEL enables SSO via standard protocols such as OpenID Connect. Services that cannot be directly integrated can be integrated with identity aware proxy or web application firewalls (WAF). Session management is therefore handled identity-based within identity access management (IAM) and no longer solely in the application. In addition, third-party cloud applications can be easily connected in this way.

### Passwordless / Multi-factor authentication

Although you can use password policies and a range of 2FA and MFA options with ZITADEL to reduce security risks during login, even complex passwords can be compromised, for example through phishing, while user experience suffers greatly from cumbersome passwords and looking up secrets. ZITADEL allows your users to configure passwordless Login based on WebAuthN & CTAP (FIDO2). Passwordless works on all browsers and platforms, requires only one gesture such as FaceID, Fingerprint or PIN, and is phishing resistant through public-key cryptography.

### Identity Brokering

Identity Brokering enables you and your customers to reuse existing identity providers. For example, if you rely on Microsoft's AzureAD for identity management, then you can use ZITADEL’s Identity Brokering feature to link your existing account from AzureAD to your ZITADEL account. The benefits of this feature is that a user can link multiple external identities to it’s ZITADEL identity. Moreover, Identity brokering enables you to grant roles to the brokered users and disable their accounts if the need arises.

### Role Based Access Control

To manage the users' access to projects connected to ZITADEL it supports the use of Role Based Access Control (RBAC). RBAC allows you to design a sophisticated role catalog for each of your projects and granting granular access to users. To integrate these roles into your application you can simply integrate them by utilizing well established protocols like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. ZITADEL also lets you configure whether you want to assert the roles into access tokens or simply rely on the userfinot and introspect endpoints.

### Delegation

ZITADEL allows you to “delegate” roles of your projects to other organizations. With this feature you can enable other organizations to self-manage their users and the effective role they possess of your project. For example if you create an eCommerce service and you want to delegate the management of a specific tenant to your customer you could easily create a role “tenant owner” which you could grant to the customers organization.

### Strong Audit Trail

Traceability is an important basis for an IAM, which is why ZITADEL offers you an audit trail of all operations of an account and its actions. The audit trail is firmly anchored in the ZITADEL because the internal data model does not save it separately but derives it from an event stream. You have the ability to export the audit trail for advanced analytics or storage to other systems.

### API’s

To make for a great IAM platform ZITADEL provides close to all of its functionalities as APIs. Most important for integrators is the Management API: It provides all features to manage Organisations, Users, Projects for a certain Organisation. Furthermore OpenID Connect 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 are available to integrate your projects Authentication and Authorization requirements. Two more API’s that are available are the IAM and Auth API. The IAM API can be used to configure the whole IAM, this is mostly used in self-deployed (ZITADEL Enterprise) or managed deployments (ZITADEL Enterprise Cloud). Authentication and user information can be accessed through the Authentication API.

## How ZITADEL compares to other solutions

Let’s compare ZITADEL to other well established solutions with a strong focus towards Developers or Open Source.

### Auth0

Auth0 is a great IAM platform to integrate with your projects. Their developer support is exceptional and the API is well thought through. However we find that some things are not ideal, such as pricing, Closed Source, Audit Trail and improper on-premise support.

Where Auth0 is more mature

- More Protocols Supported (e.g SAML 2.0)
- Customization Support (Rules, UI, and so on)
- More stable API’s
- A lot of documentations and howtos

Where ZITADEL excels

- Runs on any cloud provider and on-premise (Cloud-Native)
- Built for multi-tenancy and [self-service delegation](https://zitadel.com/docs/guides/manage/console/organizations/)
- Better Audit Capabilities
- Tiered pricing depending on SLA and non-security requirements

### Keycloak

Keycloak is a mature IAM System with a lot of great features. It is also Open Source with an Apache 2.0 license (like ZITADEL) and has a well established reputation.

Where Keycloak is more mature

- More Protocols Supported (e.g SAML 2.0)
- Better customization (Private Labelling)
- Big Community

Where ZITADEL excels

- Built for Cloud-Native
- Better Audit Capabilities
- Multi- Cloud / Datacenter Support
- Less Resource Requirements

## Platform ecosystem

We think ZITADEL is a great platform for third parties (and ourselves) to integrate business requirements on a robust platform and enable people to build business value instead of focusing on secure Authentication and Authorization implementations.

In this chapter we will provide some use-case where ZITADEL can help you excel.

### Network Integration, Identity Aware Proxy (Zero Trust)

If you use ZITADEL, you can easily integrate your network equipment (Reverse Proxy / WAF) with ZITADEL for things like secure authentication. For example you might want to enforce multi-factor authentication when a user is not at a trusted site. Your identity aware proxy could easily (re)authenticate the user when someone leaves a trusted site by prompting for a more secure authentication method. ZITADEL will then proceed with ensuring the more secure method.

<img
  src="/blog/2021-05-04-our-vision-for-zitadel-02.png"
  width="100%"
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/>

### Custom User Registration

If you have special requirements for your user registration (KYC, eHealth, eGovernment), you can easily rely on ZITADEL to build your own registration process by integrating your project with the ZITADEL management API. By building your integration you can reuse existing features to manage identities from our platform and combine them with your unique registration requirements.

<img
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  width="100%"
  alt="Custom User Registration"
/>

### Business Process integration (SaaS, MSP)

When building a service for your customers you may want to integrate your access management process into your order management. For example, if you have a SaaS solution where a customer can set up a new tenant by himself, you can delegate the ability to manage their own users directly to the customers. This may greatly reduce support requests from customers to setup users and access rights. With ZITADELs unique self-service capabilities it's even possible to let your customers register their existing identity solutions on their own.

<img
  src="/blog/2021-05-04-our-vision-for-zitadel-04.png"
  width="100%"
  alt="Business Process integration"
/>

### Custom Lifecycle Requirements (HR Systems)

If your business already has some systems in place that are responsible for managing your Human Resources or Business Processes, you can easily integrate them with ZITADEL. For example, if you have an HR System which already manages the employee lifecycle, you can use ZITADEL to handle the users identity, but leave the business process in the proper domain - within your HR System. With this approach you can reuse your employee process (joiner, mover, leaver) without leaking business processes into the IAM platform. We think that an IAM platform should not be the component in your architecture which executes business processes. Because if you implement business processes from domains like HR, CRM into the IAM Domain, you will eventually create a IAM which can not be easily replaced even if you use standard interfaces.

<img
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  width="100%"
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/>

### Custom Access Management Requirements (ITSM)

Quite a lot of companies already rely on IT service management (ITSM) systems like ServiceNow to handle their fulfillment processing (access request, account reset, etc.). In such cases it makes sense to leave the IT service workflows in the tool that is optimized for business processes and integrate ZITADEL as an access Management system. Such an integration allows you to fully integrate your IT services process. For example the account of a user could be locked from the ZITADEL management interface and the unlock process could be built as a workflowinto your ITSM. This helps you build and maintain lean processes with low implementation and change cost.

<img
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  width="100%"
  alt="Custom Access Management Requirements (ITSM)"
/>

### Custom Sync of data (Sync any data source)

ZITADEL’s APIs enable you to manipulate and synchronize data from any system. For example, you can sync your applications users list with ZITADEL and even change user data from within your application. All of this without relying on ZITADEL’s management interface (console). If you care about a deep integration of the user experience this is a great way to enable your project. Furthermore some applications require an up-to-date list of all users for their processes. These applications can easily query ZITADEL for said data.

<img
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  width="100%"
  alt="Custom Sync of data"
/>

## How people use ZITADEL

Most of the time, our customers choose to use our platform's core features like Authentication and Authorization by utilizing protocols like OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0. But in some cases they integrate even deeper with our API to improve their time to market, operational efficiency and security. Read about what people have already built in this chapter.

### Integration Case - Task Management

<img
  src="/blog/2021-05-04-our-vision-for-zitadel-08.png"
  width="60%"
  alt="Hygeia"
/>

One of our customers built a SaaS Service for tracing pandemics. Right now this solution is used to trace the SARS-CoV-2 spread in some parts of Switzerland.
The special integration in this case is that the workers who use the solution need to be able to assign work to entitled people. To accomplish this, the software utilizes a service account to query ZITADELs management API in a scheduled manner and syncs this list into their database. With this they are able to provide an up-to-date list of all entitled users. Further ZITADEL enables their development by providing an IAM as a Service model, where CAOS takes care of all operation security questions.

Kudos to [JOSHMARTIN](https://joshmartin.ch/) for helping us through the pandemic by providing the government with a progressiv application that really enables the tracing effort.

**Used Features**

- Authentication (incl. MFA, Passwordless)
- Authorization
- OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0
- Management API, Query Granted Users
- Service Accounts

**Tech Stack**

- Elixir
- Phoenix Live View

**Resources** <br></br>
[joshmartin.ch/en/projects/kanton-st-gallen-contact-tracing/](https://joshmartin.ch/en/projects/kanton-st-gallen-contact-tracing/)

### Integration Case - eCommerce Framework

<img
  src="/blog/2021-05-04-our-vision-for-zitadel-09.png"
  width="60%"
  alt="Velox"
/>

The great people of [sly](https://sly.ch) are building a modern microservice oriented headless eCommerce Framework called [VELOX](https://velox.swiss) and choose ZITADEL as the solution for handling all of their authentication and authorization needs.

Kudos to sly for creating such a great and adaptive eCommerce solution!

**Used Features**

- Authentication incl. multi factor
- Authorization
- Single Sign On
- OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0
- Management API
- Service Accounts

**Tech Stack**

- Java

**Resources** <br></br>
[velox.swiss](https://velox.swiss)

### Integration Case - multiple ASP.net Core Projects

The Zurich located development agency called [smartive](https://smartive.ch/) utilizes ZITADEL for their projects. As they often rely on ASP.net Core to build award winning projects they wanted to improve their time to market. To integrate ZITADEL with the existing Microsoft authorization ecosystem, they implemented the .net library and open sourced it. Go checkout the library on [Github](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel-net).

Kudos to Christoph Bühler for implementing this!

**Used Features**

- Authentication (incl. MFA, Passwordless)
- Authorization
- Single Sign On
- OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 (incl. JWT Profile and introspect support)
- Management API
- Service Accounts

Tech Stack
ASP.NET Core

Resources
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel-net

## Future Enhancements (subject to change)

We will improve ZITADEL over time with new features. To give you a small hint of what we are planning to release, have a look at the following list.

- API Docs with Swagger / OpenAPI - [Since creating this blog we released this feature](https://zitadel.com/docs/apis/introduction#swagger-documentation)
- Outbound Webhooks
- SCIM 2.0 API
- Expose Authentication Functions as API
- Conditional Access Rules API

If you have ideas of question feel free to engage with us on [Github Discussion Board](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/discussions)

## TL; DR Why you should consider ZITADEL your goto IAM Platform

ZITADEL is a proper **Open Source** project, offers competitive and fair **pricing**, is built by an experienced **team** and a **committed company** and has a **high velocity for developing new features** and constantly improving security.

**In short ZITADEL is the identity & access platform for your business!**

Feel free to contact us on these channels

- [hi@zitadel.com](mailto:hi@zitadel.com)
- [twitter.com/zitadel](https://twitter.com/zitadel)
- [github.com/zitadel/zitadel/discussions](https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/discussions)

If you consider contributing we would also be happy to welcome you!


We built ZITADEL not only with the vision of  becoming a great open source project but also  as a superb platform to support developers building their applications, without need to handle secure user login and account management themselves.

Our Vision for ZITADEL


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## Topics covered

- What makes ZITADEL better than other IAM services?
- Why did you choose Cockroach DB?
- What is CQRS and how do you use it in ZITADEL?
- Why use a spooler in an event-sourcing workload?
- How does ZITADEL avoid bad data?
- What are challenges of Kubernetes?
- What is ORBOS?
- How to use GitOps? What are the benefits?
- How to solve DNS problems from running Kubernetes in multiple regions?
- How to use CloudFlare's magic WAN?
- How to handle hybrid-cloud challenges?
- Why use geo-partitioning?
- Secondary indexes in Cockroach DB

## CockroachDB & ZITADEL

We use [CockroachDB](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/) as our storage. Check out their great product!

Read our joint Case-Study: [ZITADEL is building an IAM-as-a-service platform with CockroachDB & CQRS](https://resources.cockroachlabs.com/case-study/zitadel).

## Further resources

- [ZITADEL Architecture](https://zitadel.com/docs/concepts/architecture/software)
- [ORBOS - GitOps everything](https://github.com/caos/orbos)
- [Cloudflare Magic WAN](https://www.cloudflare.com/magic-wan/)
- [DNS Chaining | Cockroach Labs](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experience-report-running-across-multiple-kubernetes-clusters/)


Our live stream with Cockroach Labs on how we built ZITADEL.

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