spring-authorization-server VS authentik

I use this https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-authorization-server for smaller projects or experimentations. Keeps all the moving parts without going to a 3rd party.

In this section we will use Spring Authorization Server to build an authorization server.In addition, we will also customize the access_token and custom user information endpoints.

You can spin one up in Spring (Java) fairly quickly and boilerplate - Main page and Getting Started Guide.

Is Spring Authorization Server ready for production? Does it only use OAuth 2.1? We currently use `org.springframework.security.oauth.boot:spring-security-oauth2-autoconfigure` in our apps with OAuth2 JWT with grant types `password`, and `refresh_token`. If we update our authorization server with Spring Authorization Server, do we have to change all functionalities? Can we use OAuth2 or do we have to start using OAuth2.1?

At the moment of writing this it seems like the documentation is also in the early stages, although I wouldn't expect too much from the documentation later on either if it was to be judged by the docs for the rest of the spring security. You can find the official docs here.

Your example is pretty unconventional though — it seems like you're sort of rolling your own authorization server which will make things difficult. The project has been diligent about removing support for "issuing" JWTs and things like that. If you asked a maintainer about your current approach they'd probably point you to https://spring.io/projects/spring-authorization-server.

It has becone so boilerplate, Spring is actually helping Take a look at: Spring Auth Server

Spring Auth Server

Most of the time, and most examples, will be about using OAuth as a client. But in your case you want to have your own OAuth and Open ID server which will be federated with Facebook and Google. All that means is that you will then have an OAuth server that is also someone else's client, such that your apps authenticate with your server which then uses their servers to actually identify users. This will also come in handy later if you want to set up permissions and what not. Besides Keycloak you might want to look into WSO2 IS or Auth0. Keycloak and WSO2 IS can be run locally, while Auth0 is a cloud service. I'd go with either Keycloak or Auth0. If you go the Spring Authorization Server route, they rolled up an example of federation on the project's Github page. Oauth can be pretty complicated though so I'd suggest that you start off with a ready-made solution. If you stick to Spring Oauth2 Client and avoid things like using Keycloak's specific adapter, it should be easy enough to swap OAuth servers later on. Regarding SAML, I've never used it. I think OAuth is way more prevalent in web development. Here's a comparison, I found it informative. You mentioned tutorials... I bought this course on Udemy last year and it was pretty nice. I browsed some tutorials, and I think this is what you need if you go with Keycloak, assuming you're using Keycloak on the server. If you want to authenticate users on the frontend (running on the browser), you'll want a PKCE flow example.

Spring has an oauth2 authorization server that is currently in early release: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-authorization-serv...

I'm building something with it currently and it's quite nice, especially if you are already familiar with spring security. Documentation is quite sparse tho.

If you're looking for a system that has more features, is user friendly, a nice admin ui and easy deployments compared to Keycloak. Please give https://goauthentik.io/ a shot. Not affiliated in any way, just a very happy user.

It has

-an admin UI

- Supports (LDAP, SAML, OAUTH, social logins)

- MFA, Passkeys

- Application access based on user groups etc

Hey, for authentik this is actually something we're actively working on: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/8330, and this will be included in our next feature release in April!

(Disclaimer, I am founder and CTO of authentik)

See here for the fix, which both implements the workaround suggested in the issue and also a much more standard-compliant method: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/8471

Ask in the correct places for support: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/discussions and https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues

I've been searching around for a while now, and struggling with getting Authentik setup on my NAS. I'd like to deploy via Portainer, but getting lost in the documentation just to deploy.

Personally I went with Keycloak, because it's fairly well documented and also has Docker images available: https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-doc... although the fact that they want you to create an "optimized" image yourself and have a long build/setup process on startup instead is slightly annoying: https://www.keycloak.org/server/containers

Regardless, with something like mod_auth_openidc or another Relying Party implementation, all of the sudden authn/authz becomes easier to manage (you can literally get user information including roles in headers that are passed from your gateway/relying party to apps behind the reverse proxy), regardless of what you have actually running in your APIs: https://github.com/OpenIDC/mod_auth_openidc (there are other options, of course, but I went with that because I already use mod_md).

It's actually cool that there are plentiful options in the space, since OIDC is pretty complex in of itself and attempts at creating something pleasant to actually use are always welcome, I've also heard good things about Authentik: https://goauthentik.io/

Hello ! I am hosting a server under NixOS with multiple services, and to simply the identity management, I use authentik (https://goauthentik.io/) which can be compared to keycloak. Everything works fine until I try to enable mastodon to host an instance : authentik returns an error 400 and nothing changes this but disabling mastodon. Does anyone have an idea of what could be the cause of this ?

For Authentik, it looks like they are not interested to write how to configure HAProxy with it https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/5768