Django as an Authentication Server

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I kept facing the same problem with Django projects. I had a common set of users for multiple projects. A friend recommended I use AWS Cognito to authenticate users, but it seemed absurd that Django couldn't act as an authentication/authorization server out-of-the-box. So I rolled out my own solution: https://github.com/pandichef/djangito I'd love to get some feedback on this and/or find contributors to help. Thanks!

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You could have used keycloak for that. The bonus is that you get a ton of extra features for free too.

Thanks for mentioning keycloak, I didn't know it existed. I wonder how it stacks up against auth0 or AWS cognito.

It's more like a self hosted auth0, I think. I'm not very familiar with cognito.

My team is in the middle of implementing keycloak. Some of the more advanced use cases have been difficult, strictly due to the patchy documentation.

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