tag:Home Lab

A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS. It worked, but over time Authentik got a bit heavy for what I actually needed from it, i.e. one identity provider and a forward auth in front of a few self-hosted apps. So I swapped it out for Pocket ID (a small OIDC provider) and TinyAuth (a tiny forward auth that talks to it). This post is the sequel to that one, showing how I did the migration on NixOS. The services themselves are NixOS modules, and the OIDC clients and their secrets are declared in nix too but applied with OpenTofu via Terranix, so the whole thing is declarative end to end. ...

In this post, I will show you how you can set up forward auth for a single host in Authentik, with Traefik as our reverse proxy on NixOS. This is particularly useful way to protect apps that don’t have any built in auth. Authentik is a great app which can handle authentication for almost all of our home lab. So we only need to log in with Authentik, to log in to any of our apps. Rather than needing separate passwords and usernames for each app. ...