| title | Cbox ID — operator documentation |
|---|---|
| weight | 1 |
| description | The operator manual for deploying, configuring, and running the self-hostable Cbox ID app. |
This is the operator manual for running the deployable Cbox ID app — the thing you self-host. It covers deploying, configuring, and operating the platform.
Building against Cbox ID (integrating an app, OAuth/OIDC/SCIM, entitlements)? That's the framework documentation, which ships inside the
cboxdk/laravel-idpackage (github.com/cboxdk/laravel-id) — start with its Start here guide.
Cbox ID is a separate repository from the framework it composes. Because there is
no shared checkout, references into the framework docs use canonical public URLs
on github.com/cboxdk/laravel-id, never relative ../ paths. If you have the
package installed, the same files live under vendor/cboxdk/laravel-id/docs/.
- Quickstart — operator zero-to-running in a few commands.
- Requirements — exactly what
composer.jsonenforces. - Getting started — installation and the first-run flow.
- Integrate your app — where a
client_idcomes from, and the first SDK call. - Admin guides — for the person administering an organization in the console: single sign-on, user sync, roles, access reviews. These are what the "?" beside each console page title links to.
- Configuration — every environment variable that matters, and the secure defaults this app ships with.
- Operations — deployment and day-2: backing up the crypto key, key rotation, the health check, audit/monitoring, upgrades, and break-glass.
- Security — the operator-facing security surfaces and the system-level compliance view.
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
php artisan cbox-id:install # keys, migrations, the first operator + environment
php artisan cbox-id:doctor # confirms everything is healthy, in plain languageThen serve behind TLS, run the queue worker and scheduler, and back up
CBOX_ID_CRYPTO_KEY somewhere separate from the database — losing it makes
sealed secrets unrecoverable. Details in Operations.
The deployable app built on cboxdk/laravel-id. The framework package provides the
identity engine (crypto, tenancy, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM, SAML, audit); this app adds the
admin console, onboarding, and hosted-cloud concerns. It's server-rendered
(Livewire + Volt) on purpose — session-cookie auth, minimal JS, no tokens in the
browser — because it is the login surface.