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I'm currently using Authelia to authenticate for some of my self hosted services. It works fine, but the limited user backends (ldap or... yaml??) make me want to look for an alternative.

Authentik seems good, but after looking at their website I get the feeling of imminent enshitification, where they're going to either pull the rug on the open source version, or basically gatekeep essential features behind an enterprise license.

So, for those using Authentik, how has your experience been so far?

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[–] keepee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I like the "supportware" term, I can apply that to a few other tools (airbyte, teleport). I ended up setting up authentik today and it went really smoothly. So far I like it a lot, so hopefully the full enshittification process doesn't happen soon. Even though right now I just want to use it for my own self-hosting purposes, I'm also interested in potentially using it for work. We have a few hundred thousand users and AWS cognito is getting pretty expensive.