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Introduction

You can integrate ZITADEL quickly into your application and be up and running within minutes. To achieve your goals as fast as possible, we provide you with SDKs, Example Repositories and Guides.

The SDKs and Integration depend on the framework and language you are using.

Resources​

OIDC Libraries​

OIDC is a standard for authentication and most languages and frameworks do provide a OIDC library which can be easily integrated to your application. If we do not provide an specific example, SDK or guide, we strongly recommend using existing authentication libraries for your language or framework instead of building your own. Certified libraries have undergone rigorous testing and validation to ensure high security and reliability. There are many recommended libraries available, this saves time and ensures that users' data is well-protected.

You might want to check out the following links to find a good library:

Other example applications​

  • B2B customer portal: Showcase the use of personal access tokens in a B2B environment. Uses NextJS Framework.
  • Frontend with backend API: A simple web application using a React front-end and a Python back-end API, both secured using ZITADEL
  • Introspection: Python examples for securing an API and invoking it as a service user
  • Fine-grained authorization: Leverage actions, custom metadata, and claims for attribute-based access control

Search for the "example" tag in our repository to explore all examples.

Missing SDK​

Is your language/framework missing? Fear not, you can generate your gRPC API Client with ease.

  1. Make sure to install buf
  2. Create a buf.gen.yaml and configure the plugins you need
  3. Run buf generate https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel#format=git,tag=v2.23.1 (change the versions to your needs)

Let us make an example with Ruby. Any other supported language by buf will work as well. Consult the buf plugin registry for more ideas.

Example with Ruby​

With gRPC we usually need to generate the client stub and the messages/types. This is why we need two plugins. The plugin grpc/ruby generates the client stub and the plugin protocolbuffers/ruby takes care of the messages/types.

version: v1
plugins:
- plugin: buf.build/grpc/ruby
out: gen
- plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/ruby
out: gen

If you now run buf generate https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel#format=git,tag=v2.23.1 in the folder where your buf.gen.yaml is located you should see the folder gen appear.

If you run ls -la gen/zitadel/ you should see something like this:

ffo@ffo-pc:~/git/zitadel/ruby$ ls -la gen/zitadel/
total 704
drwxr-xr-x 2 ffo ffo 4096 Apr 11 16:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 ffo ffo 4096 Apr 11 16:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 4397 Apr 11 16:49 action_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 141097 Apr 11 16:49 admin_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 25151 Apr 11 16:49 admin_services_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 6537 Apr 11 16:49 app_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 1134 Apr 11 16:49 auth_n_key_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 32881 Apr 11 16:49 auth_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 6896 Apr 11 16:49 auth_services_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 1571 Apr 11 16:49 change_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 2488 Apr 11 16:49 event_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 14782 Apr 11 16:49 idp_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 5031 Apr 11 16:49 instance_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 223348 Apr 11 16:49 management_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 44402 Apr 11 16:49 management_services_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 3020 Apr 11 16:49 member_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 855 Apr 11 16:49 message_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 1445 Apr 11 16:49 metadata_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 2370 Apr 11 16:49 object_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 621 Apr 11 16:49 options_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 4425 Apr 11 16:49 org_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 8538 Apr 11 16:49 policy_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 8223 Apr 11 16:49 project_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 1022 Apr 11 16:49 quota_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 5872 Apr 11 16:49 settings_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 20985 Apr 11 16:49 system_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 4784 Apr 11 16:49 system_services_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 28759 Apr 11 16:49 text_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 24170 Apr 11 16:49 user_pb.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffo ffo 13568 Apr 11 16:49 v1_pb.rb

Import these files into your project to start interacting with ZITADEL's APIs.