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title: Embedded Outpost
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Starting with 2021.8.1, authentik comes with an embedded outpost. This has been added to simplify deployment for users using the Proxy provider.
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The embedded outpost is ran in the main `server` container, and is managed by authentik itself. The embedded outpost authenticates itself via the secret key.
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You can access the embedded outpost on the same ports as authentik itself, 9000 and 9443.
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The embedded outpost cannot be disabled, if it doesn't make sense to use in your deployment you can simply ignore it.
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### Configuration
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Since the outpost uses OAuth2, there is some configuration required.
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On a fresh authentik install, your Outpost list will look like this:
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Click the edit button on the right of the colum, and set the value of `authentik_host` to the URL you want to login with.
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Make sure to set it to full URL, only configuring a hostname or FQDN will not work.
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### Routing
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Routing is handled like this:
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1. Paths starting with `/static`, `/media` and `/help` return packaged CSS/JS files, and user-uploaded media files.
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2. Paths starting with `/akprox` are sent to the embedded outpost.
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3. Any hosts configured in the providers assigned to the embedded outpost are sent to the outpost.
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4. Everything remaining is sent to the authentik backend server.
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### Differences
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There are a few more differences between managed outposts and the embedded outpost, mainly due to the fact that authentik can't fully manage the containers.
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1. (Docker-only) No automatic traefik labels are added to the server container.
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When you deploy a managed outpost on docker, the container has several labels to automatically configure traefik. This is not done for the embedded outpost.
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2. (Kubernetes-only) An additional service is created.
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Since authentik does not know what the normal authentik Service is called, another one is created with a common set of labels that is always set.
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