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Automated install

To install authentik automatically (skipping the Out-of-box experience), you can use the following environment variables on the worker container:

AUTHENTIK_BOOTSTRAP_PASSWORD​

Configure the default password for the akadmin user. Only read on the first startup. Can be used for any flow executor.

AUTHENTIK_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN authentik 2021.8+​

Create a token for the default akadmin user. Only read on the first startup. The string you specify for this variable is the token key you can use to authenticate yourself to the API.

AUTHENTIK_BOOTSTRAP_EMAIL authentik 2023.3+​

Set the email address for the default akadmin user.

Kubernetes​

In the Helm values, set the akadminuser password and token:

authentik:
  bootstrap_token: test
  bootstrap_password: test

To store the password and token in a secret, use:

envFrom:
 - secretRef:
     name: _some-secret_

where some-secret contains the environment variables as in the documentation above.