Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server providing two-factor authentication and single
sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal. It acts as a companion for reverse proxies by
allowing, denying, or redirecting requests.
Documentation is available at https://www.authelia.com/.
The following is a simple diagram of the architecture:
Authelia can be installed as a standalone service from the AUR,
APT,
FreeBSD Ports, or using a
static binary,
.deb package, as a container on Docker or Kubernetes.
Deployment can be orchestrated via the Helm Chart (beta) leveraging ingress controllers
and ingress configurations.
Here is what Authelia's portal looks like:
Features summary
This is a list of the key features of Authelia:
- OpenID Connect 1.0 / OAuth 2.0
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Several second factor methods:
- Passwordless Authentication via WebAuthn (Passkeys)
- Password reset with identity verification using email confirmation.
- Access restriction after too many invalid authentication attempts.
- Fine-grained access control using rules which match criteria like subdomain, user, user group membership, request uri,
request method, and network.
- Choice between one-factor and two-factor policies per-rule.
- Support of basic authentication for endpoints protected by the one-factor policy.
- Highly available using a remote database and Redis as a highly available KV store.
- Compatible with Traefik out of the box using the
ForwardAuth middleware.
- Curated configuration from LinuxServer via their
SWAG container as well as a
guide.
- Compatible with Caddy using the forward_auth
directive.
- Kubernetes Support:
- Compatible with several Kubernetes Ingress Controllers and Gateways:
- Beta support for installing via Helm using our Charts.
For more details take a look at the Overview.
If you want to know more about the roadmap, follow Roadmap.
OpenID Connect 1.0 / OAuth 2.0
Authelia is OpenID Certified™ to the Basic OP / Implicit OP / Hybrid OP / Form Post OP / Config OP profiles of the
OpenID Connect™ protocol. While this offering is still effectively
on the roadmap as a beta it's very comprehensive and well
implemented already, also allowing us comprehensive certification. Read more about the
OpenID Certified™ status of Authelia in the
OpenID Connect 1.0 Integration Guide.
Proxy support
Authelia works in combination with nginx, Traefik, Caddy, Skipper, Envoy, or HAProxy.
Getting Started
See the Get Started Guide or one of the curated examples
below.
docker compose
The docker compose bundles act as a starting point for anyone wanting to see Authelia in action. You will have to
customize them to your needs as they come with self-signed certificates.
The Local compose bundle is intended to test Authelia without worrying about configuration.
It's meant to be used for scenarios where the server is not be exposed to the internet.
Domains will be defined in the local hosts file and self-signed certificates will be utilized.
The Lite compose bundle is intended for scenarios where the server will be exposed to the internet, domains and DNS will
need to be setup accordingly and certificates will be generated through LetsEncrypt. The Lite element refers to minimal
external dependencies; File based user storage, SQLite based configuration storage. In this configuration, the service
will not scale well.
Deployment
Now that you have tested Authelia and you want to try it out in your own infrastructure,
you can learn how to deploy and use it with Deployment.
This guide will show you how to deploy it on bare metal as well as on
Kubernetes.
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
