Authentication and role-based access companion for self-hosted Dagster OSS that enforces team permissions on assets and job runs
Dagster OSS has no authentication or RBAC. The feature request has 309 GitHub reactions and 87 comments spanning from 2020. A Dagster core maintainer confirmed in October 2021 that auth and RBAC are being offered exclusively through Dagster Cloud, and a March 2023 blog post on open-core business models makes clear this is a permanent conscious decision. Teams that need RBAC and must self-host (due to data residency, compliance, or cost) have no native option. A community package dagster-authkit (51 stars, published January 2026) launched a basic auth layer but covers only login-level access with no DAG-level or asset-level RBAC. The product opportunity is a drop-in auth service that integrates with SSO/OIDC and enforces team-level asset group permissions, job run gating, and audit logs against the Dagster OSS GraphQL API.
A proxy companion that adds SSO login and Dagster-aware role-based access control to self-hosted Dagster OSS deployments
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Dagster consciously withholds auth and RBAC from OSS as core open-core differentiation. The 2023 blog post and maintainer comment both confirm this is intentional. The community has been asking for 5+ years. dagster-authkit is a 51-star proof of demand but covers only session auth, not fine-grained RBAC. No funded incumbent targets this specific Dagster OSS gap.