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For people like me who lack context:
Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server and portal fulfilling the identity and access management (IAM) role of information security in providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal. It acts as a companion for common reverse proxies.
After recently trying Authelia I gave up and moved to Authentik. Very much appreciate the all in one functionality of it. The company even paid a YouTuber to make a bunch of useful step by step tutorials and they have been invaluable. They also have a number of SSO integration instructions for various software. I highly recommend giving it a try if you're in the market for an easy enough self hosted SSO and proxy password system.
Started with authelia. True, the learning curve might be steeper but for such a critical security wise component, well worth to invest into.
Simply love authelia so far. Documentation is great and detailed, but you need to study and understand.
Honestly, well worth it. I wouldn't go quick on something like that just to install it faster then risk some breach.
Have you compared authentik to authelia by any chance? I use authentik but don't think I've ever tried authelia. I did use keycloak for a bit too.
No, I started with authelia it seemed to better fit my ethical choices.
Compared to authentik or keycloak? Please elaborate.
Authelia doesn't seems to follow the "free tier / paid tier" approach of other solutions, and doesn't seems to have a commercial company backing it. While i have nothing against monetizing your work, i tend to prefer solutions that don't rely on a commercial partner behind that could start an enshittification strategy sometime in the future or worse.
Authelia gave me a better feeling.
Of course, i might be completely wrong. And, as i wrote, i never tried other solutions before Authelia, which fitted my bill immediately.
I'm currently comparing Authentik and Authelia. For me, Authentik was extremely easy to get into. Authelia with its text-based configuration is clearly not as easy for beginners.
On the other hand I value Authelia single configuration file which I can version control in git. Authentik is a click-ops burden.
Or the fact it consumes like 30mb of ram compared to authentiks near 1GB.
Authentik has blueprints, which while not as simple as Authelia's config, do provide a functional way to have version-controlled configuration.
I've been running SWAG and many other text config services for many years now so that is not the issue. I just couldn't find the information I needed to get everything working the way I wanted. I will agree with the reply below that the Authentik interface isn't a plus for me. But the documentation is very good. To the point where I was always able to find how to do what I wanted.