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I use authentik. It’s probably fairly easy to set up if you use their docker-compose, but I run it as rootless podman, which took a little work to get it converted to a quadlet pod. But now that it’s set up, it works great and handles a variety of self-hosted apps that use saml, oidc, ldap, and forward-auth. It’s one of the few options that handles all the different authentication types natively. I also set up passkeys and standard two-factor time codes.
There are some very helpful authentik youtube tutorials by Cooptonian.
authentik.pod [Pod] PodName=authentik PublishPort=9000:9000 PublishPort=9443:9443 PublishPort=3389:3389 PublishPort=6636:6636 authenik_db.container [Unit] Description=authentik_db Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] EnvironmentFile=.env Pod=authentik.pod ContainerName=authentik_db Image=docker.io/library/postgres:17-alpine AutoUpdate=registry Volume=authentik_db.volume:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z Environment=POSTGRES_USER=authentik Environment=POSTGRES_DB=authentik [Install] WantedBy=default.target authentik_server.container [Unit] Description=authentik_server Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] EnvironmentFile=.env Pod=authentik.pod ContainerName=authentik_server Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2026.5 Exec=server AutoUpdate=registry Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=authentik_db Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=authentik Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik Volume=authentik_media.volume:/data/media:U,Z Volume=authentik_data.volume:/data:U,Z Volume=authentik_templates.volume:/templates:U,Z [Install] WantedBy=default.target authentik_worker.container [Unit] Description=authentik_worker Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] EnvironmentFile=.env Pod=authentik.pod ContainerName=authentik_worker Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2026.5 Exec=worker AutoUpdate=registry Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=authentik_db Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=authentik Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik Environment=AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__HTTP=[::]:9001 Environment=AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__METRICS=[::]:9301 Volume=authentik_media.volume:/data/media:U,Z Volume=authentik_data.volume:/data:U,Z Volume=authentik_templates.volume:/templates:U,Z Volume=authentik_certs.volume:/certs:U,Z Volume=/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:z [Install] WantedBy=default.target authentik_ldap.container [Unit] Description=authentik_ldap Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Restart=always [Container] Pod=authentik.pod ContainerName=authentik_ldap Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/ldap:2026.5 AutoUpdate=registry Environment=AUTHENTIK_HOST=https://authentik.mydomain.com/ Environment=AUTHENTIK_INSECURE="false" Environment=AUTHENTIK_TOKEN=wowthisisquitethelongandsafetokenthatnoonewilleverhack [Install] WantedBy=default.target ````___`