Traefik

The configuration templates shown below apply to both single-application and domain-level forward auth.

info

example-outpost is used as a placeholder for the outpost name. authentik.company is used as a placeholder for the authentik install. app.company is used as a placeholder for the external domain for the application. outpost.company is used as a placeholder for the outpost. When using the embedded outpost, this can be the same as authentik.company

Standalone traefik

http:
    middlewares:
        authentik:
            forwardAuth:
                address: http://outpost.company:9000/outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/traefik
                trustForwardHeader: true
                authResponseHeaders:
                    - 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
    routers:
        default-router:
            rule: "Host(`app.company`)"
            middlewares:
                - authentik
            priority: 10
            service: app
        default-router-auth:
            rule: "Host(`app.company`) && PathPrefix(`/outpost.goauthentik.io/`)"
            priority: 15
            service: authentik
    services:
        app:
            loadBalancer:
                servers:
                    - url: http://ip.internal
        authentik:
            loadBalancer:
                servers:
                    - url: http://outpost.company:9000/outpost.goauthentik.io

docker-compose

services:
    traefik:
        image: traefik:v3.0
        container_name: traefik
        volumes:
            - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
        ports:
            - 80:80
        command:
            - "--api"
            - "--providers.docker=true"
            - "--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false"
            - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"

    authentik-proxy:
        image: ghcr.io/goauthentik/proxy
        ports:
            - 9000:9000
            - 9443:9443
        environment:
            AUTHENTIK_HOST: https://your-authentik.tld
            AUTHENTIK_INSECURE: "false"
            AUTHENTIK_TOKEN: token-generated-by-authentik
            # Starting with 2021.9, you can optionally set this too
            # when authentik_host for internal communication doesn't match the public URL
            # AUTHENTIK_HOST_BROWSER: https://external-domain.tld
        labels:
            traefik.enable: true
            traefik.port: 9000
            traefik.http.routers.authentik.rule: Host(`app.company`) && PathPrefix(`/outpost.goauthentik.io/`)
            # `authentik-proxy` refers to the service name in the compose file.
            traefik.http.middlewares.authentik.forwardauth.address: http://authentik-proxy:9000/outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/traefik
            traefik.http.middlewares.authentik.forwardauth.trustForwardHeader: true
            traefik.http.middlewares.authentik.forwardauth.authResponseHeaders: 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
        restart: unless-stopped

    whoami:
        image: containous/whoami
        labels:
            traefik.enable: true
            traefik.http.routers.whoami.rule: Host(`app.company`)
            traefik.http.routers.whoami.middlewares: authentik@docker
        restart: unless-stopped

Ingress

Create a middleware:

apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
    name: authentik
spec:
    forwardAuth:
        # This address should point to the cluster endpoint provided by the kubernetes service, not the Ingress.
        address: http://outpost.company:9000/outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/traefik
        trustForwardHeader: true
        authResponseHeaders:
            - 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 following settings to your IngressRoute

By default traefik does not allow cross-namespace references for middlewares:

See here to enable it.

spec:
    routes:
        - kind: Rule
          match: "Host(`app.company`)"
          middlewares:
              - name: authentik
                namespace: authentik
          priority: 10
          services: # Unchanged
        # This part is only required for single-app setups
        - kind: Rule
          match: "Host(`app.company`) && PathPrefix(`/outpost.goauthentik.io/`)"
          priority: 15
          services:
              - kind: Service
                # Or, to use an external Outpost, create an ExternalName service and reference that here.
                # See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#externalname
                name: ak-outpost-example-outpost
                port: 9000