I’m currently using Authelia to authenticate for some of my self hosted services. It works fine, but the limited user backends (ldap or… yaml??) make me want to look for an alternative.
Authentik seems good, but after looking at their website I get the feeling of imminent enshitification, where they’re going to either pull the rug on the open source version, or basically gatekeep essential features behind an enterprise license.
So, for those using Authentik, how has your experience been so far?
How about zitadel as an option?
I just switched from Authelia to PocketID No good reason. Mainly because Authelia was a bit convoluted and I needed something very basic.
On paper I should love Authelia, I’m a sucker for y’all configured services, I can write a couple of files on my Ansible and boom, everything works… However I never had much luck setting Authelia up, Authentik on the other hand was very painless (albeit) manual (via UI) configuration. I don’t do anything crazy, so any of them would work for me though, I just failed on setting Authelia and tried Authentik and had had no reason to change.
Authentik can be configured through terraform
Take this with a grain of salt because I haven’t started using this yet, but I am planning on using pocket id on my personal server
https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id
Seems to do what I want it to do
I am using authelia as well for some time. At some point I was looking into kanidm. It looked promising, but never got into actually using it. I never figured out though, whether they support forward header auth.
There’s also Zitadel: https://zitadel.com/
I tried it before authelia, and it felt like an unfinished product. Nice looking, but there were weird issues, like you could create projects (or apps? i don’t remember) through the UI, but then if you wanted to delete them you had to use the API. The hierarchy of resources also didn’t really feel intuitive to me. But that’s just personal preference. I’ve been testing out authentik today and I really like it. I like that the UI works great, but there’s also a terraform provider to manage things declaratively.
I very much enjoy authentik. Great tool. Lots of great documentation.