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title: Overview
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An outpost is a single deployment of a authentik component, which can be deployed in a completely separate environment. Currently, Proxy Provider and LDAP are supported as outposts.
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Upon creation, a service account and a token is generated. The service account only has permissions to read the outpost and provider configuration. This token is used by the Outpost to connect to authentik.
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authentik can manage the deployment, updating and general lifecycle of an Outpost. To communicate with the underlying platforms on which the outpost is deployed, authentik has several built-in integrations.
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- If you've deployed authentik on docker-compose, authentik automatically creates an integration for the local docker socket (See [Docker](./integrations/docker.md)).
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- If you've deployed authentik on Kubernetes, with `kubernetesIntegration` set to true (default), authentik automatically creates an integrations for the local Kubernetes Cluster (See [Kubernetes](./integrations/kubernetes.md)).
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To deploy an outpost with these integrations, simply select them during the creation of an Outpost. A background task is started, which creates the container/deployment. You can see that Status on the System Tasks page.
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To deploy an outpost manually, see:
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- [Kubernetes](./manual-deploy-kubernetes.md)
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- [docker-compose](./manual-deploy-docker-compose.md)
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## Configuration
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Outposts fetch their configuration from authentik. Below are all the options you can set, and how they influence the outpost.
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import Configuration from "./_config.md";
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<Configuration />
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## Metrics
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Each authentik outpost has a Prometheus metrics endpoint accessible under port `:9300/metrics`. This endpoint is not mapped via docker, as the endpoint doesn't have any authentication.
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For the embedded outpost, the metrics of the outpost and the metrics of the core authentik server are both returned under the same endpoint.
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