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Do you know a good alternative identity provider that I can run out-of-the box on my own servers/pods? I've used Okta quite extensively in the past and always recommended it to clients because: "They have more expertise around network security than your small team". I kind of regret this now... But I also don't want to implement my own IdP from scratch...

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Keycloak is pretty standard for this.

https://www.keycloak.org/

"supertokens" is an option.

https://supertokens.com/

Founder here, happy to answer any questions!

There is a lot of conversation here about building your own vs using something 'centralized'. All software comes with the “build vs buy” tradeoff.

Our goal at SuperTokens is to minimise those tradeoffs and give you the best of both worlds. That is - The power of build and the speed of buy.

You can migrate to and from a completely self hosted solution to a managed service as your needs change

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but this looks like an end-user authentication system that you would implement in your own app rather than a corporate directory like Okta. Different use cases.

At the moment I am exploring Caddy Security[0]. I was surprised how simple and elegant the design is. But it is a relatively young project.

If some people are using it, I would enjoy their feedback.

[0]: https://github.com/greenpau/caddy-security

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