Authelia is an 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.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Intuitive user interface.
- Lightweight – compressed container size smaller than 20 megabytes and observed memory usage normally under 30 megabytes,
- Fast.
- Efficient.
- Highly available using a remote database and Redis as a highly available KV store.
- Single Sign-On – offers the convenience of just being required to login once to a wide range of web applications via a session cookie, OpenID Connect 1.0, or Trusted Headers.
- Authorization Policies – control which users and groups have access to which specific resources or domains with granular policy definitions. Fine-grained access control using rules which match criteria like subdomain, user, user group membership, request uri, request method, and network.
- Identity Validation – users who have not configured a second-factor device are required to validate their identity via an email reducing the chance an attacker could exploit a lazy user.
- Scalability – designed with high availability in mind, deployment options exist to easily allow multiple parallel containers on lifecycle management platforms like Kubernetes.
- Multi-Factor Authentication – support for multiple second-factor methods including One Time Passwords with compatible authenticator applications, Mobile Push Notifications, and security Keys that support FIDO2 WebAuthn with devices like a YubiKey.
- Kubernetes Support: Compatible with several Kubernetes ingress controllers:
- ingress-nginx.
- Traefik Kubernetes CRD.
- Traefik Kubernetes Ingress.
- Istio.
- Beta support for OpenID Connect.
Website: www.authelia.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Authelia
License: Apache License 2.0
Authelia is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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