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Dex Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to dex
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Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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authelia
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.
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oauth2-proxy
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
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graphjin
One governed graph for AI agents — GraphQL + MCP over your databases, files, APIs, and code
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Ory Kratos
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network. (by ory)
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Ory Hydra
Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.
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casbin
Apache Casbin: an authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC.
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atomic
Discontinued Atom Agent, superpowered Siri/Alexa for time, storage, meetings, email, tasks, finance, notes, search, shopify, marketing, design, web app and research [Moved to: https://github.com/rush86999/atom] (by rush86999)
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caddy-auth-portal
Discontinued Authentication Plugin for Caddy v2 implementing Form-Based, Basic, Local, LDAP, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 (Github, Google, Facebook, Okta, etc.), SAML Authentication. MFA with App Authenticators and Yubico.
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Hence, a higher number means a better dex alternative or higher similarity.
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I got tired of paying JFrog for a secure OpenTofu / Terraform registry so I built my own
OpenDepot's Helm chart bundles Dex as a subchart to handle OIDC authentication with an upstream IdP like Entra ID, GitHub, Okta, and many more. This is the recommended authentication method since it doesn't require cluster access or expose endpoints used to modify resources.
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East, west, north, south: How to fix your local cluster routes
For starters, this works for routing traffic to the K3D cluster, we could call this 'north-south'. But not for routing traffic within the cluster (east-west). This becomes apparent when trying to setup an OIDC sample application1, such as the one shipped with DEX. The domain pointing to Keycloak is used in two places: By the browser of the user logging in, so in this case from the host OS, and directly from the backend, so within the cluster.
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Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass
Dex + FreeIPA (or whatever backend you want to use) ?
Although 2FA is pending merge: https://github.com/dexidp/dex/pull/3712
- A Federated OpenID Connect Provider
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Navigating Identity Authentication: From LDAP to Modern Protocols
Dex: https://dexidp.io
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Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
Recently I looked into having a relatively simple SSO setup for my homelab. My main objective is that I could easily login with Google or GitHub auth. At my previous job I used both JetBrains Hub [1] and Keycloak but I found both of them a bit of a PITA to setup.
JetBrains Hub was really, really easy to get going. As was my previous experience with them. The only thing that annoyed me was the lack of a latest tag on their Docker registry. Don't get me wrong, pinned versions are great, but for my personal use I mostly just want to update all my Docker containers in one go.
On the other hand I found Keycloak very cumbersome to get going. It was pretty easy in dev mode, but I stumbled to get it going in production. AFAIK it had something to do with the wildcard Let's Encrypt cert that I tried to use. But after a couple of hours, I just gave up.
I finally went with Dex [2]. I had previously put it off because of the lack of documentation, but in the end it was extremely easy to setup. It just required some basic YAML, a SQLite database and a (sub)domain. I combined Dex with the excellent OAuth2 Proxy and a custom Nginx (Proxy Manager) template for an easy two line SSO configuration on all of my internal services.
In addition to this setup, I also added Cloudflare Access and WAF outside of my home to add some security. I only want to add some CrowdSec to get a little more insights.
1. https://www.jetbrains.com/hub/
2. https://dexidp.io/
3. https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
3. https://github.com/alex3305/unraid-docker-templates
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Sign in with GitHub in Go
Another great option is to use https://github.com/dexidp/dex in an authentication setup. In your app, you federate the authentication to dex using OAuth2. Dex then has a pluggable architecture with built-in connectors for many established identity providers using a variety of protocols: Among others OAuth2, SAML 2 but also GitHub, Google, Gitea and so forth.
- Show HN: Obligator – An OpenID Connect server for self-hosters
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I made a small program that makes it easier to run commands inside containers
dex is well-known: https://github.com/dexidp/dex
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Keycloak – Open-Source Identity and Access Management Interview
We used keycloak for openid identity provider as well. It is fine to setup keycloak once. But it is painful share the setup with other engineers.
For local development, we end up using dex (https://dexidp.io). When we need support group/role, we use dex and glauth(https://glauth.github.io). Both dex and glauth can be configured with yaml files. We just created a few yaml files and a docker compose file, every engineer can be brought up the whole environment in a few seconds.
Also https://www.authelia.com and https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik look pretty promising, if you need more advanced features from them.
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