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Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server providing 2-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications. It acts as a companion of reverse proxies by handling authentication and authorization requests.
Authelia can be installed as a standalone service using Docker or NPM but can also be deployed easily on Kubernetes. On the latest, one can leverage ingress configuration to set up authentication and authorizations for specific services in only few seconds.
Features summary
Here is the list of the main available features:
- Several kind of second factor:
- Password reset with identity verification using email.
- Single-factor only authentication method available.
- Access restriction after too many authentication attempts.
- Fine-grained access control per subdomain, user, resource and network.
- Support of [basic authentication] for endpoints protected by single factor.
- High-availability using distributed database and KV store.
- Compatible with Kubernetes ingress-nginx controller out of the box.
For more details about the features, follow Features.
Getting Started
You can start off with
git clone https://github.com/clems4ever/authelia.git && cd authelia
source bootstrap.sh
If you want to go further, please read Getting Started.
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.
Security
If you want more information about the security measures applied by Authelia and some tips on how to set up Authelia in a secure way, refer to Security.
Changelog & Breaking changes
See CHANGELOG.md and BREAKING.md.
Contribute
Anybody willing to contribute to the project either with code, documentation, security reviews or whatever, are very welcome to issue or review pull requests and take part to discussions in Gitter.
We are already greatful to contributors listed in CONTRIBUTORS.md for their contributions to the project. Be the next in the list!
Build Authelia
If you want to contribute with code, you should follow the documentation explaining how to build the application.
Donation
Wanna see more features? Then fuel us with a few beers!
License
Authelia is licensed under the MIT License. The terms of the license are as follows:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 - Clement Michaud
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