Traefik-forward-auth Alternatives

traefik-forward-auth reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2024

  I use Traefik with OpenID Connect for everything, and Google as IdP. It's few enough people that I simply add them manually to traefik-forward-auth's settings in Docker Compose.

  https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth

• Show HN: Obligator – An OpenID Connect server for self-hosters
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
• Authentik reverse proxy vs swag
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jul 2023

  BTW also keycloak and other similar products offer the oauth-proxy capability, I even used the original oauth2-proxy https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy for a while, but it was getting too difficult to maintain for me. I used for a while https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth that was a smart hack configuring a single upstream provider, but it look abandoned. So I was considering authentik but apparently it's just oauth2-proxy embedded in it, at that point why not use oauth2-proxy directly.

• Traefik with traefik-forward-auth towards Azure AD loop-redirect and fail
  2 projects | /r/Traefik | 11 May 2023

  It seems there are some more recently updated forks.

• Dell T320 vs T620 Idle Power
  5 projects | /r/homelab | 28 Mar 2023

  Traefik Forward Auth

• Assuming I have each individual service working (cloudflare-tunnel, keycloak, nginx, arrs, dashy), how would I go about having a system like this? (more in comments)
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 Mar 2023

  One way I got this to work (for another app that doesn’t go through cloudflare) was to use Traefik with forward-auth and this: https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth

• Just finished migrating my old tower servers to a Kubernetes cluster on my new rack!
  19 projects | /r/homelab | 21 Jan 2023

  In front of all of my private dashboards, I use Traefik Forward Auth to limit who can access them.

• Is there something like Keycloak or Authelia that supports both forward auth and identity providers?
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Jan 2023

  Hm, interesting. I have worked with traefik-forward-auth before, but I didn't know there is a fork. Are you using the fork? Would you happen to know if this issue from the original project still exists or if it's fixed in the fork?

• How do you expose some of your services to the internet?
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Dec 2022

  https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth (just another option if everyone accessing already has a google account)

• Cant wrap my head around auth process
  5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Dec 2022

  Traefik ingress + forward auth middleware + traefik-forward-auth does the trick.

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