What auth apps do you use ive seen authelia, authentik, keycloack but whats overall the best

  • The Zen Cow Says Mu@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use authentik. It’s probably fairly easy to set up if you use their docker-compose, but I run it as rootless podman, which took a little work to get it converted to a quadlet pod. But now that it’s set up, it works great and handles a variety of self-hosted apps that use saml, oidc, ldap, and forward-auth. It’s one of the few options that handles all the different authentication types natively. I also set up passkeys and standard two-factor time codes.

    There are some very helpful authentik youtube tutorials by Cooptonian.

    • jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Would you be willing to share that Quadlet? I also run rootless Podman on my main VPS and I’m approaching that point where I have enough services to justify a dedicated IDM solution.

      • The Zen Cow Says Mu@infosec.pubEnglish
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        2 months ago
        authentik.pod
[Pod]
PodName=authentik
PublishPort=9000:9000
PublishPort=9443:9443
PublishPort=3389:3389
PublishPort=6636:6636

authenik_db.container
[Unit]
Description=authentik_db
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=always


[Container]
EnvironmentFile=.env
Pod=authentik.pod
ContainerName=authentik_db
Image=docker.io/library/postgres:17-alpine
AutoUpdate=registry
Volume=authentik_db.volume:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z
Environment=POSTGRES_USER=authentik
Environment=POSTGRES_DB=authentik

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

authentik_server.container
[Unit]
Description=authentik_server
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=always


[Container]
EnvironmentFile=.env
Pod=authentik.pod
ContainerName=authentik_server
Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2026.5
Exec=server
AutoUpdate=registry
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=authentik_db
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=authentik
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik
Volume=authentik_media.volume:/data/media:U,Z
Volume=authentik_data.volume:/data:U,Z
Volume=authentik_templates.volume:/templates:U,Z


[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

authentik_worker.container
[Unit]
Description=authentik_worker
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=always


[Container]
EnvironmentFile=.env
Pod=authentik.pod
ContainerName=authentik_worker
Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2026.5
Exec=worker
AutoUpdate=registry
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=authentik_db
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=authentik
Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik
Environment=AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__HTTP=[::]:9001
Environment=AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__METRICS=[::]:9301
Volume=authentik_media.volume:/data/media:U,Z
Volume=authentik_data.volume:/data:U,Z
Volume=authentik_templates.volume:/templates:U,Z
Volume=authentik_certs.volume:/certs:U,Z
Volume=/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:z
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

authentik_ldap.container
[Unit]
Description=authentik_ldap
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Restart=always


[Container]
Pod=authentik.pod
ContainerName=authentik_ldap
Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/ldap:2026.5
AutoUpdate=registry
Environment=AUTHENTIK_HOST=https://authentik.mydomain.com/
Environment=AUTHENTIK_INSECURE="false"
Environment=AUTHENTIK_TOKEN=wowthisisquitethelongandsafetokenthatnoonewilleverhack
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
````___`
  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There is no “overall best”, just one that works best for you. I like to keep mine on a managed encrypted server so I use Ente Auth. I think Proton has one as well.

  • glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use Authentik - works well - but I’m prepping to switch to Authelia for the config-based setup.

    I updated Authentik across 2 versions (they did 2 month-long supported tags, missed one; now they do 3 month-long supported tags) and it destroyed itself. Had to recover the DB from a backup (and then step through the version I tried to skip), and while I was doing that I was like “wait why does this have only a DB? Should just be a config file cause that’s all the depth I do with it” and lo that’s what Authelia is.

    Authentik is audited and Authelia has not been. Initially while I chose Authentik. But config-file robustness in the face of Authentik’s GUI-setup DB imploding swayed me not to care, it’d take so long and be so tedious to redo all my proxies and auths through the GUI. Plus I always forget what to click in the GUI when I come back to add some new program in 4 months.

  • Gagootron@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I personally run authelia. I prefer the config file over a gui where i have to click together all the config. For the actual user storage i got lldap.

    But my requirements a pro possibly different to yours, my main focus was no docker and no javascript backend.

    Keycloak is definetly overkill for a homelab. Both in effort to get it to run, and maintaining it.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

  • Harold@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Kanidm

    It has a modest UI for end-users to handle self-service scenarios, and an app portal for OpenID Connect configured applications.

    The backend is fully CLI based.

    It is very robust and performant, built on Rust.

    Yet very much in active development, so do not expect full parity with commercial alternatives at a feature level.

    I run it to provision users for my home Linux devices and it supports offline login, my Homelab servers, and my self-hosted web applications through OIDC.

    A nice ‘one stop shop’ for my purposes.

    EDIT: Actually their comparison page might be a worthwhile read considering your question OP.

    • Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
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      2 months ago

      I like kanidm too ! And I think that something that could be really powerful would be to have the local client daemon provide a token for user applications (browsers with an extension, dedicated app…).

    • cultist@feddit.dkEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Also switched to Kanidm, and using the Kubernetes operator someone made have made it easy to configure also.

      I have custom resources that create HTTPRoutes and then protect public traffic with Kanidm by creating a a OAuthClient per site.

      Chefs kiss.

  • nelson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The best is pretty subjective and partially relies on what you need.

    Keycloak is one of the most feature complete ones I think.

    I’ve used authelia before and liked it, but it had a very bare UI and everything was done through config files which forced redeploys on changes. It wasn’t ideal for me.

    I’m currently trying out voidauth. It’s got some more Ui features compared to authelia and can apparently also simulate some Active Directory queries to forward your users to third party tools for provisioning ( unless I saw that wrong, I haven’t tested any yet ).

    Authentik looked nice, but I haven’t gotten around to checking that one out yet.

  • whysofurious@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I used authentik first as it was suggested by a friend with whom we are sharing the vps, and so I kept using that also for another personal vps.

    It is a good combination of robustness and flexibility for me, plus we needed a user dashboard or at least a list of apps. Custom workflows, blueprints and stuff were a bit of a pain to understand, so I just copy them between the two install I have because I keep forgetting how everything works. It’s also quite resource-heavy, so I might try something different in the future.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    “The best” depends on what you really need.

    Authentik and Authelia are two of the top most quoted solutions, but they aim to be an “everything in one” package, with tons of features a simple homelab will rarely need. They’re aimed more at enterprise-like setups.

    On the other end of the spectrum you have e.g. Pocket-ID, which only does OIDC by itself (you can hook up an LDAP server as user database though); but that tradeoff means it uses little to no CPU time, and, in my experience, around 130MB RAM. Given RAM is getting more expensive than gold, one needs to consider memory footprint, especially for older homelab setups. We can’t all be running 256GB nodes after all.

    So instead of hunting the mythical “best” solution, decide what features you really need, grab a list of providers that cover those features, and compare them to see what fits your needs best.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ll second Pocket-ID.

    I originally had Authentik setup. It worked well enough. However, their packaging constantly broke and no-one seemed to care.

    Switched to Pocket-ID and won’t be looking back. Passkey-based OAuth was all I wanted anyways. (Also, the logins themselves are noticeably faster!)

    • pi3r8@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I would third this. I only came across pocket id a few days ago and hooked it up to a few containers for testing and it’s really impressed me.