# authentik outpost [](https://dev.azure.com/beryjuorg/authentik/_build?definitionId=3)  Reverse Proxy based on [oauth2_proxy](https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy), completely managed and monitored by authentik. ## Usage authentik Proxy is built to be configured by authentik itself, hence the only options you can directly give it are connection params. The following environment variable are implemented: `AUTHENTIK_HOST`: Full URL to the authentik instance with protocol, i.e. "https://authentik.company.tld" `AUTHENTIK_TOKEN`: Token used to authenticate against authentik. This is generated after an Outpost instance is created. `AUTHENTIK_INSECURE`: This environment variable can optionally be set to ignore the SSL Certificate of the authentik instance. Applies to both HTTP and WS connections. ## Development authentik Proxy uses an auto-generated API Client to communicate with authentik. This client is not kept in git. To generate the client locally, run `make generate`. Afterwards you can build the proxy like any other Go project, using `go build`.