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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?

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[โ€“] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Authelia + lldap(lightweight ldap) has been a really nice and powerful setup that negates the need for authentik for me. Authelia and authentik have diffrent goals tho, authelia is by design less powerfull and has a much smaller code base so that independent teams can audit the code themselves and a "set and forget" type configuration. Authentik is targeted at being an enterprise solution with all the bells and whistles. If you need those bells and whistles and dont want to use authentik try looking at keycloak (which also needs an ldap backend)

[โ€“] AddiXz@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Keycloak user here! You don't need** LDAP to use keycloak, but you can use it (I do too). Afaik keycloak is not always the easiest (not always clear instructions) but it works flawlessly for me and those who I authenticate. I use it for almost all my self hosted services except those who don't support it (obviously).I can manage my users in LDAP and use keycloak for SSO etc. I would definitely recommend it!