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Secrets
Configuration of Authelia requires some secrets and passwords. Even if they can be set in the configuration file or standard environment variables, the recommended way to set secrets is to use environment variables as described below.
Environment variables
A secret value can be loaded by Authelia when the configuration key ends with one of the following words: key,
secret, password, or token.
If you take the expected environment variable for the configuration option with the _FILE suffix at the end. The value
of these environment variables must be the path of a file that is readable by the Authelia process, if they are not,
Authelia will fail to load. Authelia will automatically remove the newlines from the end of the files contents.
For instance the LDAP password can be defined in the configuration at the path authentication_backend.ldap.password, so this password could alternatively be set using the environment variable called AUTHELIA_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND_LDAP_PASSWORD_FILE.
Here is the list of the environment variables which are considered secrets and can be defined. Please note that only secrets can be loaded into the configuration if they end with one of the suffixes above, you can set the value of any other configuration using the environment but instead of loading a file the value of the environment variable is used.
| Configuration Key | Environment Variable |
|---|---|
| tls_key | AUTHELIA_TLS_KEY_FILE |
| jwt_secret | AUTHELIA_JWT_SECRET_FILE |
| duo_api.secret_key | AUTHELIA_DUO_API_SECRET_KEY_FILE |
| session.secret | AUTHELIA_SESSION_SECRET_FILE |
| session.redis.password | AUTHELIA_SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD_FILE |
| session.redis.high_availability.sentinel_password | AUTHELIA_REDIS_HIGH_AVAILABILITY_SENTINEL_PASSWORD_FILE |
| storage.encryption_key | AUTHELIA_STORAGE_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE |
| storage.mysql.password | AUTHELIA_STORAGE_MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE |
| storage.postgres.password | AUTHELIA_STORAGE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD_FILE |
| notifier.smtp.password | AUTHELIA_NOTIFIER_SMTP_PASSWORD_FILE |
| authentication_backend.ldap.password | AUTHELIA_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND_LDAP_PASSWORD_FILE |
| identity_providers.oidc.issuer_private_key | AUTHELIA_IDENTITY_PROVIDERS_OIDC_ISSUER_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE |
| identity_providers.oidc.hmac_secret | AUTHELIA_IDENTITY_PROVIDERS_OIDC_HMAC_SECRET_FILE |
Secrets in configuration file
If for some reason you decide on keeping the secrets in the configuration file, it is strongly recommended that you ensure the permissions of the configuration file are appropriately set so that other users or processes cannot access this file. Generally the UNIX permissions that are appropriate are 0600.
Secrets exposed in an environment variable
In all versions 4.30.0+ you can technically set secrets using the environment variables without the _FILE suffix by
setting the value to the value you wish to set in configuration, however we strongly urge people not to use this option
and instead use the file-based secrets above.
Prior to implementing file secrets the only way you were able to define secret values was either via configuration or via environment variables in plain text.
See this article for reasons why setting them via the file counterparts is highly encouraged.
Docker
Secrets can be provided in a docker-compose.yml either with Docker secrets or
bind mounted secret files, examples of these are provided below.
Compose with Docker secrets
This example assumes secrets are stored in /path/to/authelia/secrets/{secretname}
on the host and are exposed with Docker secrets in a docker-compose.yml file:
version: '3.8'
networks:
net:
driver: bridge
secrets:
jwt:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/jwt
duo:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/duo
session:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/session
redis:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/redis
mysql:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/mysql
smtp:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/smtp
ldap:
file: /path/to/authelia/secrets/ldap
services:
authelia:
image: authelia/authelia
container_name: authelia
secrets:
- jwt
- duo
- session
- redis
- mysql
- smtp
- ldap
volumes:
- /path/to/authelia:/config
networks:
- net
expose:
- 9091
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- AUTHELIA_JWT_SECRET_FILE=/run/secrets/jwt
- AUTHELIA_DUO_API_SECRET_KEY_FILE=/run/secrets/duo
- AUTHELIA_SESSION_SECRET_FILE=/run/secrets/session
- AUTHELIA_SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/redis
- AUTHELIA_STORAGE_MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/mysql
- AUTHELIA_NOTIFIER_SMTP_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/smtp
- AUTHELIA_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND_LDAP_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/ldap
- TZ=Australia/Melbourne
Compose with bind mounted secret files
This example assumes secrets are stored in /path/to/authelia/secrets/{secretname}
on the host and are exposed with bind mounted secret files in a docker-compose.yml file
at /config/secrets/:
version: '3.8'
networks:
net:
driver: bridge
services:
authelia:
image: authelia/authelia
container_name: authelia
volumes:
- /path/to/authelia:/config
networks:
- net
expose:
- 9091
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- AUTHELIA_JWT_SECRET_FILE=/config/secrets/jwt
- AUTHELIA_DUO_API_SECRET_KEY_FILE=/config/secrets/duo
- AUTHELIA_SESSION_SECRET_FILE=/config/secrets/session
- AUTHELIA_SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD_FILE=/config/secrets/redis
- AUTHELIA_STORAGE_MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE=/config/secrets/mysql
- AUTHELIA_NOTIFIER_SMTP_PASSWORD_FILE=/config/secrets/smtp
- AUTHELIA_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND_LDAP_PASSWORD_FILE=/config/secrets/ldap
- TZ=Australia/Melbourne
Kubernetes
Secrets can be mounted as files using the following sample manifests.
To create a secret, the following manifest can be used
---
kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: a-nice-name
namespace: your-authelia-namespace
data:
duo_key: >-
UXE1WmM4S0pldnl6eHRwQ3psTGpDbFplOXFueUVyWEZhYjE0Z01IRHN0RT0K
jwt_secret: >-
anotherBase64EncodedSecret
...
where UXE1WmM4S0pldnl6eHRwQ3psTGpDbFplOXFueUVyWEZhYjE0Z01IRHN0RT0K is Base64 encoded for
Qq5Zc8KJevyzxtpCzlLjClZe9qnyErXFab14gMHDstE, the actual content of the secret. You can generate these contents with
LENGTH=64
tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom \
| fold -w "${LENGTH}" \
| head -n 1 \
| tr -d '\n' \
| tee actualSecretContent.txt \
| base64 --wrap 0 \
; echo
which writes the secret's content to the actualSecretContent.txt file and print the Base64 encoded version on stdout. ${LENGTH} is the length in characters of the secret content generated by this pipe. If you don't want the contents to be written to actualSecretContent.txt, just delete the line with the tee command.
Kustomization
- Filename: ./kustomization.yaml
- Command: kubectl apply -k
- Notes: this kustomization expects the Authelia configuration.yml in the same directory. You will need to edit the kustomization.yaml with your desired secrets after the equal signs. If you change the value before the equal sign you'll have to adjust the volumes section of the daemonset template (or deployment template if you're using it).
#filename: ./kustomization.yaml
generatorOptions:
disableNameSuffixHash: true
labels:
type: generated
app: authelia
configMapGenerator:
- name: authelia
files:
- configuration.yml
secretGenerator:
- name: authelia
literals:
- jwt_secret=myverysecuresecret
- session_secret=mysessionsecret
- redis_password=myredispassword
- sql_password=mysqlpassword
- ldap_password=myldappassword
- duo_secret=myduosecretkey
- smtp_password=mysmtppassword
DaemonSet
- Filename: ./daemonset.yaml
- Command: kubectl apply -f ./daemonset.yaml
- Notes: assumes Kubernetes API 1.16 or greater
#filename: daemonset.yaml
#command: kubectl apply -f daemonset.yaml
#notes: assumes kubernetes api 1.16+
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: authelia
namespace: authelia
labels:
app: authelia
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: authelia
updateStrategy:
type: RollingUpdate
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: authelia
spec:
containers:
- name: authelia
image: authelia/authelia:latest
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
env:
- name: AUTHELIA_JWT_SECRET_FILE
value: /app/secrets/jwt
- name: AUTHELIA_DUO_API_SECRET_KEY_FILE
value: /app/secrets/duo
- name: AUTHELIA_SESSION_SECRET_FILE
value: /app/secrets/session
- name: AUTHELIA_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND_LDAP_PASSWORD_FILE
value: /app/secrets/ldap_password
- name: AUTHELIA_NOTIFIER_SMTP_PASSWORD_FILE
value: /app/secrets/smtp_password
- name: AUTHELIA_STORAGE_MYSQL_PASSWORD_FILE
value: /app/secrets/sql_password
- name: AUTHELIA_SESSION_REDIS_PASSWORD_FILE
value: /app/secrets/redis_password
- name: TZ
value: America/Toronto
ports:
- name: authelia-port
containerPort: 9091
startupProbe:
httpGet:
path: /api/state
port: authelia-port
initialDelaySeconds: 15
timeoutSeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 4
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /api/state
port: authelia-port
initialDelaySeconds: 60
timeoutSeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 30
failureThreshold: 2
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /api/state
port: authelia-port
initialDelaySeconds: 15
timeoutSeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 5
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /config
name: config-volume
- mountPath: /app/secrets
name: secrets
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: config-volume
configMap:
name: authelia
items:
- key: configuration.yml
path: configuration.yml
- name: secrets
secret:
secretName: authelia
items:
- key: jwt_secret
path: jwt
- key: duo_secret
path: duo
- key: session_secret
path: session
- key: redis_password
path: redis_password
- key: sql_password
path: sql_password
- key: ldap_password
path: ldap_password
- key: smtp_password
path: smtp_password