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authentik Blog
Company blog · goauthentik.io/blogsecurityprogramming
authentik Blog is the company blog at goauthentik.io, writing about security and programming. Since 2021, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Authentik: An open-source Identity Provider”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (25) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link goauthentik.io as the homepage, docs and comparison pages for the authentik open-source identity provider. Comments discuss self-hosting and choosing the product, not the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 25 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bring all of your authentication into a unified platform.
Most-linked posts?
- Authentik: An open-source Identity Provider15 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2022-04-26
- Authentik is an open-source Identity Provider with flexibility and versatility3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-04-16
- I gambled against React and lost3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-05
- I gambled against React and lost (and I don't regret a thing)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
- Why Authentik embraced the performance issues and built on Pyton2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-16
- We Removed Redis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-14
What Hacker News says?
I set up Authentik[^1] on my NAS in a docker container and went from there! Just had to add a .well-known webfinger file to my domain that pointed to the Authentik instance and it "just worked" with Tailscale. [^1]: https://goauthentik.io/
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on “Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure”Submitted Identity: Self-Hosted or in the Cloud? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI recently set up passkey-only sign ins for a webapp I'm writing using Authentik [0](Python OIDC provider, with quite a nice docker-compose run-up, took only minutes to stand up.) It was surprisingly easy to configure everything so that passkeys are the only thing ever used. If anyone would be interested I could write it up? I was surprised what a nice user flow it is and how easy it was to achieve. [0] https://goau…
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on “Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords”Submitted We Removed Redis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA PBC is just a for-profit company that has _some_ sort of specific mandate to benefit the "public good" - however it chooses to define that. It's generally meant to provide some balance toward societal good over the more common, strictly shareholder profit-maximizing alternative. (IANAL but run a PBC that uses this charter[1] and have written about it here[2] as part of our biennial reporting process.) [1] https://…
Comment linking /blog/2024-09-25-our-biennial-pbc-report/
on “Evolving OpenAI's Structure”Submitted Everyone agrees zero trust is good but no one correctly implements it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAuthentik Security | Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time Authentik Security ( https://goauthentik.io ) is the company behind authentik ( https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik ), an open source identity provider with over 250k+ unique installations and 12M+ downloads. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all! We are a small remote team, looking t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted authentik is now OpenID Certified as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was interested in Authentik, but I was perusing the docs and was extremely put off by the way in which Authentik manages itself as well as additional “outposts”. > The docker integration will automatically deploy and manage outpost containers using the Docker HTTP API. > This integration has the advantage over manual deployments of automatic updates (whenever authentik is updated, it updates the outposts) NO. I do…
Comment linking /docs/outposts/integrations/docker
on “Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management”Submitted We Removed Redis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthentik is also worth checking out: https://goauthentik.io/ The biggest benefit is that Authentik supports Forward Auth out of box. This means that you might not need oauth2proxy.
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on “Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management”Submitted My hobby became my job, 50% extra pay, just needed to let go of GPLv3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://goauthentik.io/#comparison They have an enterprise version now (mostly for support and bleeding edge features that later make it into the open source product.) It's pretty easy to self host. I have been doing it for a small site for years and I couldn't even get any other open source solution to work. They are mostly huge with less features.
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on “Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles”Submitted Monorepos are great! ... for now. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthentik Security | Senior Engineer | US | REMOTE (anywhere) | Full-time Authentik Security ( https://goauthentik.io ) is the company behind authentik ( https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik ), an open source identity provider with 1M+ unique installations. Help us replace Okta/Auth0, Ping Identity, and Microsoft Entra with modern, secure identity for all! We are a small remote team, looking to scale up with exp…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Open Source SaaS Is Dead; Long Live Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've replaced keycloak with https://goauthentik.io/ 2 years on, no complaints
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on “Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF”Submitted We migrated off Django's storage API to a filesystem-first approach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been eyeing authentik[1] and authelia[2]. Authelia looks really good to me, but the fact that keycloak has connectors for angular and you need to setup oidc angular plugins with authelia for example made me a little bit wary. But I guess having a config for Keycloak makes it's easier to get started. [1] https://goauthentik.io/ [2] https://www.authelia.com/
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on “Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx”Submitted Authentik: An open-source Identity Provider as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Honest to god, if an IdP like Okta made an Active Directory replacement that ran via container https://goauthentik.io/ can run in docker. It can be paired in with openldap containers, too.
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on “Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft”Submitted Building with Django: 500% slower to run but 200% faster to build as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for a system that has more features, is user friendly, a nice admin ui and easy deployments compared to Keycloak. Please give https://goauthentik.io/ a shot. Not affiliated in any way, just a very happy user. It has -an admin UI - Supports (LDAP, SAML, OAUTH, social logins) - MFA, Passkeys - Application access based on user groups etc
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on “Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative”Submitted I gambled against React and lost (and I don't regret a thing) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat it is, but is a bit convoluted. I ended up settling on Authentik. [0] [0] https://goauthentik.io/
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on “Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization”Submitted Let's make identity infra fun again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile authelia is quite cool "infra-as-code" tool, since you have your entire configuration in yaml form, for those not willing to spend a few evenings configuring SSO, there is authentik [1] which features management UI. Offers similar feature set, also self-hostable, but most importantly - simple to set-up. I've spent 8h on authelia deployment, where 30 minutes in authentik would be sufficient. But both are good o…
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on “Authelia and Lldap: Authentication, SSO, User Management for Home Networks”Submitted Open source developers are the original content creators as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> We’re launching our first OPBC company, Authentik Security, in November. Authentik Security is a cyber security company that provides identity management solutions around single-sign-on, user enrollment, and other access control features. This Authentik? https://goauthentik.io The maintainer works in Yelp(1), so is the company not associated with the actual founder of the project? 1. https://github.com/BeryJu
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on “Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies”Submitted I gambled against React and lost as a story · 2 points
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