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.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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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.
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.
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.