truecharts/charts/stable/authentik/docs/how_to.md

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How-To

This is a quick how-to or setup guide to use Authentik with TrueNAS SCALE and setup a simple Proxy Provider with traefik using the Embedded Outpost to use as a Traefik forwardauth. This guide was created with Authentik 2022.10.0 and will be updated if things dramatically change. This can be applied to other systems but this specific guide has been tested and created on TrueNAS SCALE and isn't guaranteed to work with any other configs.

Requirements

• Authentik TrueCharts Chart
• Traefik Truecharts Chart

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you're using Traefik as your Reverse Proxy / Ingress provider and have through the configuration listen in our Quick-Start guides and/or the Traefik documents. Please ensure that you can access your domain properly with Ingress before attempting any further steps.

Authentik Chart Setup

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The Authentik chart has many options, which may enhance or break your chart depending on your setup and are beyond the scope of this guide

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Container Configuration

All of the defaults are fine to start off, you must choose a password, however ingress must be set if you wish to use authentik with traefik.

Ingress Example

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Note that the *.domain.com host config is only needed if you want to use Forward auth (single application) in authentik.

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Authentik GUI Setup

Default username is akadmin and password is whatever you entered in the initial setup.

• Once logged in enter the Admin Interface

Create Application

• First step is to create an Application for use with authentik

• Specific the Name and Slug and then choose Create Provider

• Choose a new provider Proxy Provider.

• The simplest is to give it a name and use Forward auth (domain level). Once there you enter the main ingress URL you use to access authentik and the cookie domain as the main domain you use.

• If you want to use subdomain-level access control, select Forward auth (single application) and enter the URL you have chosen for your apps' ingress.
• The example uses https://application.domain.com/, make sure your app is reachable and uses a valid certificate beforehand.
• You can set HTTP-Basic Authentication Attributes under Authentication settings for your service here.
  • Don't use a basicAuth middleware in the apps' ingress settings. Only use this if your app has build in basic auth support.
  • Add the attributes in a authentik group, then assign any user you want to be able to access the application to this group.

• Once done use that new Provider you created

Choose Provider

If everything was done properly above, you should have the Provider you created assigned to your Application

Use Embedded Outpost

• Next step is simply attaching your application with the authentik Embedded Outpost that has been created automatically. Click the Edit button under Actions

• Name your Outpost and choose the Application you wish to use with authentik. Click Update and verify it's usage with the Healthcheck below.

Traefik ForwardAuth Setup

Once authentik is setup and running, you must create a forwardAuth inside Traefik in order to use authentication with Traefik. For my purposes auth is what I used but as long as you remember it you're fine.

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The main thing about this screen is to use the internal DNS name for simplicity

• I have successfully used an authentik instance on a difference host together with external-service using this URL:
  • https://authentik-external-service.ix-authentik.svc.cluster.local:9443/outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/traefik
• Use heavyscript dns -a to get the internal DNS name for your authentik instance in that case.
• I suggest using the https endpoint and port because it is what worked for me.

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http://authentik-http.ix-authentik.svc.cluster.local:10230/outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/traefik

Double-check the DNS name and port.

There's also a list of authResponseHeaders inside authentik listed for use with Traefik, so in case you need them here they are.

• X-authentik-username
• X-authentik-groups
• X-authentik-email
• X-authentik-name
• X-authentik-uid
• X-authentik-jwt
• X-authentik-meta-jwks
• X-authentik-meta-outpost
• X-authentik-meta-provider
• X-authentik-meta-app
• X-authentik-meta-version

Add the authorization header to pass the HTTP-Basic headers from authentik to you application.

Add Traefik forwardAuth to Charts

• Once that is done all you need to add the middleware to your Charts under the Ingress section, as in my case it's called auth.

And that's it.

Verification it works

• Simply visit any URL that you have Traefik + the forwardAuth middleware enabled

• Login and voila!

Support

• You can also reach us using Discord for real-time feedback and support
• If you found a bug in our chart, open a Github issue but generally it's advised to contact us on Discord first in most cases.

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