Getting started with Authentik

For a while now, i was thinking about centralizing user authentication for my hosted services. Features, i was searching for were:

• Basic Authetication with forewardAuth/Oauth/etc.
• Webfrontend for user management (not just an ldap command line)
• User Groups
• Self hosted

I had a look at Authelia before. Unfortunatly Authelia only has Authentication providers for files and ldap. Which are both don’t provide a Webfrontend for usermanagement out of the box. There are forontends for ldap, but they are not built in and a hassle to set up.

A friend mentioned Authentik, so I had a look at it.

Infrastructure

The setup I have is the following:

• Virtual Server in the Cloud:
  • Traefik as a reverse proxy for my Services
  • Docker for hosting all my containers
  • Services like: Gitea, Paperlessngx, Nextcloud, codeserver .. in containers

I wanted to integrate authentik into this infrasturcture, by using the proxy provider from authentik and having it provide authentication with a traefik forward auth middleware.