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Authentik Proxy Outpost on Kubernetes: The Parts Nobody Documents

April 2026 — Every Authentik tutorial covers OIDC. Here’s what to do when the app has no OIDC support at all.

I run Authentik as my SSO provider on a self-hosted RKE2 cluster. Most apps I deploy support OIDC natively — you register an application in Authentik, it hands out tokens, life is good. But some apps don’t speak OIDC. n8n’s community edition is one. So is anything where you want to bolt authentication onto a bare internal tool without touching its config.