Self-Hosted Authentication: Picking an SSO Layer for Your Homelab with Authentik or Authelia
Run five self-hosted apps and you’ve got five separate logins, five separate password resets, and five separate places an old account can quietly stay active after you meant to lock someone out. Once you cross that threshold, a single sign-on layer stops being a nice-to-have and starts being the thing that keeps your homelab’s security model from turning into a pile of unrelated logins nobody’s actually tracking. Here’s what an SSO layer buys you, and how the two most common self-hosted options actually differ. ...