How Authelia Performs Multi-Factor Authentication
Authelia sits between your reverse proxy and the apps behind it, intercepting requests and performing auth checks before forwarding traffic, giving you true MFA that can be integrated with something like Google Authenticator, or Yubikey/Titan key, etc…
Stop exposing unsecured apps. Learn how to deploy Authelia in Docker with a KeyDB backend and SWAG to enforce centralized Multi-Factor Authentication.
Setting up Authelia can be a bit intensive at first, but very worth the payoff / time and effort!
Disclaimers: I’m the author & run this exact setup, in production for myself. It’s a “battle tested” setup, which has been in use for a few years now. Written & verified by a human! The header image is a composite of my Authelia MFA token page & AI generated infographic. NO ADS or affiliate marketing on page!
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If you knew what was under the hood you would not say it’s “just” customized nginx… It’s more like customised, optimized and simplified.
It has many enhancements builtin like automatic certificate generation and renewal, fail2ban, prebuilt optimized configs, and easily enhanced security with crowdsec and even geofencing.
But made way easier than doing that separately with raw NGINX.
It’s much more friendly to pickup and run with then raw NGINX.