Happy Birthday to Us!

We're celebrating our 1-year mark as Authentik Security, a company behind the open-source Identity Provider authentik, which unifies identity needs into a single platform replacing Okta, Active Directory, and auth0. We thank users, supporters, contributors, questioners, and testers for their past and present support. Our CTO, Jens Langhammer, started coding authentik in 2018 with the first commit on November 11. The project gained excitement around it in October 2021, catching eyes in the ecosystem. An Open Core Ventures approach led to funding and operational guidance, turning the project into a company in November 2022. We've released new features, including RBAC, our Enterprise version, and improved our CI/CD pipeline and deployment packaging testing. Our growing team has brought new ideas, processes, and expertise, but we're also learning to delegate and trust others. We celebrate our one-year mark with a focus on building features, supporting authentication protocols, and improving UX and ease-of-use. With several specific goals for the coming year, including increasing focus on UX, researching remote machine access and management, and implementing stronger integration and migration testing, we're excited to continue our journey with you.