Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization 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:

• U2F - Universal 2-Factor - support with Yubikey.
• TOTP - Time-Base One Time password - support with Google Authenticator.
• Password reset with identity verification using email.
• Single-factor only authentication method available.
• Access restriction after too many authentication attempts.
• User-defined access control per subdomain and resource.
• 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

Follow Getting Started.

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.

Deployment

To learn how to deploy Authelia or use it on Kubernetes, please follow Deployment.

Build Authelia

Follow Build.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Contributors

See the list of contributors in CONTRIBUTORS.md.

Donation

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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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