Quickstart

This guide explains how to run Ory software if you have purchased an Ory Enterprise License.

Prerequisites

To be able to run an enterprise build, you need:

• A valid Ory Enterprise License.
• Access to the Ory Enterprise Docker Registry.
• CockroachDB Enterprise (community version is not supported).
• Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL is available as well, but some features will be unavailable.

Ory Enterprise builds are not available for public download and require a license agreement with Ory to run.

Ory Hydra Enterprise Build

The Ory Hydra Enterprise build includes additional features and support for enterprise customers:

• Resource Owner Password Credentials grant.
• Ability to customize access, refresh token, and authorization code prefixes.
• Regular releases addressing CVEs and security vulnerabilities.

When using CockroachDB Enterprise:

• Support for multi-region failover with regulatory compliance around private data (for example GDPR).
• Database sharding for high scalability and availability.
• Zero-downtime migrations.
• Automatic clean up of stale records - no Hydra Janitor needed.

Docker Registry

There are two Docker registries available in different regions:

• us: us-docker.pkg.dev/ory-artifacts/ory-enterprise-us/hydra-oel
• eu: europe-docker.pkg.dev/ory-artifacts/ory-enterprise/hydra-oel

Image tags:

Image Tag	Release Date
897e224960bb8677edf3344bd51c9edd779e9da7	2024-06-05
f2ead7db68e8af72dbd1ab099fbaa6bf0f0ec8c3	2024-06-12
39bbe4e0d99d40d5c4feb97321fc68b20f02a7ae	2024-06-14
f066fc62fc37ee1d28b4f2973faaa2bc098fc952	2024-06-18
f832e165e187e49657229902c13ad30c4cf10d0b	2024-06-20
1578667fa246c374ca85c5eadbf49cc53a296775	2024-06-26
73a77968be31cbcba18b02918a8c11343a1fa038	2024-07-04
470aebc3ab2d4c225ca14ab8b1a12809f51b7eb3	2024-07-18
0fd87c560867f19ab12276edf258e42c4688454a	2024-07-24
04858989138f4b09c2b9b9676e3641326d96b1a6	2024-08-02
1f407d0b2035e50812e6888a71b772530d17fc7a	2024-08-12
9b96c2507f9f17f639f73c2a9284f32bf63cd9d8	2024-08-27
bf4441cc6dc1f8e8387173ae8f1396395dc1f433	2024-08-30
ce413707a03c4551b3f0bbe2e1e9c929a7e0b025	2024-09-05
20b15ef54f30d3d43a5d04bcdb7fd1d1f3fa2832	2024-09-10
c35bfb780da7ddacba23f31b5e1634fa155af9c9	2024-09-19
52ebf819f5538176c7ac1c4afc953123e8f0d3bf	2024-09-24
e2439391378f3abd513fb13847bc6a1b5f0157f1	2024-09-26
75ade08cd441f43f7771ed4f11417a30ff0b31ac	2024-09-27
a22eff120ff38ee4596ed3afddb4ca4307b1adbb	2024-10-07
14f390f978b2ebcdc8e181ac04f9978a397e21d2	2024-10-11
83f53137a823ee0ace7e2ae94e7823caa036b800	2024-10-17
69efdbbb45f642b5b142426a03a255f39e276689	2024-11-05
f5eb2f3ae6c3ece3e00dc68c5e8743de7e9f1117	2024-11-05
94d6dfba9d81c00ff03ad61a0005e93a974a03f7	2024-11-12

Enterprise Docker images are kept in a private registry that requires authorization. An authorization key is provided for each customer separately. The next steps assume that the key is stored in keyfile.json.

Docker

To authenticate to docker registry execute:

gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=keyfile.json
gcloud auth configure-docker europe-docker.pkg.dev

To run the Ory Hydra Enterprise build, you need to set the DSN environment variable to the database connection string and provide a configuration file.

Before deploying the service, you need to apply SQL migrations:

docker run -e DSN=cockroach://... europe-docker.pkg.dev/ory-artifacts/ory-enterprise/hydra-oel -- migrate sql -e  -f /path/to/config.yaml

Now you will be able to start the service:

docker run -e DSN=cockroach://... europe-docker.pkg.dev/ory-artifacts/ory-enterprise/hydra-oel -- serve all -f /path/to/config.yaml

Kubernetes

Setup Ory helm repository:

helm repo add ory https://k8s.ory.sh/helm/charts
helm repo update

Create ory namespace:

kubectl create namespace ory

Use the following command to create a kubernetes secret containing image registry credentials:

kubectl create secret docker-registry ory-oel-gcr-secret \
  --docker-server=europe-docker.pkg.dev \
  --docker-username=_json_key \
  --docker-password="$(cat keyfile.json)" \
  --namespace ory

Create kubernetes secret containing DSN and hydra secret values:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: ory-oel-hydra-secret
  namespace: ory
data:
  dsn: cockroach://
  # https://www.ory.sh/docs/hydra/reference/configuration
  secretsCookie:
  secretsSystem:

Create a values.yaml file to customize the configuration:

image:
  repository: europe-docker.pkg.dev/ory-artifacts/ory-enterprise/hydra-oel
  tag: <replace-with-current-image-tag>
imagePullSecrets:
  - name: ory-oel-gcr-secret
maester:
  enabled: false
hydra:
  automigration:
    enabled: true
serviceMonitor:
  enabled: true
secret:
  enabled: false
  nameOverride: "ory-oel-hydra-secret"
config:
  # --hydra config--
  # https://www.ory.sh/docs/hydra/reference/configuration

Install Ory Hydra

helm install ory-oel-hydra ory/hydra --namespace ory --create-namespace -f values.yaml