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?

  • notquitenothing@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    101·
    1 month ago

    You can try VoidAuth, it is kinda similar to Authelia+lldap. I am the developer and I created it because I wasn’t satisfied with Authelia’s user management. If you decide you want to try it and run into any issues or questions I will try to help :)

  • athes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I just switched from Authelia to PocketID No good reason. Mainly because Authelia was a bit convoluted and I needed something very basic.

    • keepee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      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.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    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.