Overview

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™ Authelia is a free and open-source IAM platform and OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect 1.0 provider; providing modern, flexible authentication and authorization. The project has 27K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

OpenID Connect 1.0 / OAuth 2.0
Several second factor methods:
Security Keys that support
Time-based One-Time password
Mobile Push Notifications
Passwordless Authentication via WebAuthn (Passkeys)
Password reset with identity verification using email confirmation.
Access restriction after too many invalid authentication attempts.
Fine-grained access control using rules which match criteria like subdomain, user, user group membership, request uri,
Choice between one-factor and two-factor policies per-rule.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

See the Get Started Guide or one of the curated examples below.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, docker compose, helm, kubernetes, redis, sqlite, sso, two factor auth.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Authentication & Access

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Two-Factor Authentication

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