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Re:Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self... by lxdlam on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:45PM (#45918779)
We self hosted Kratos only as our IdP: three million total users, about 200k login/logout/session/jwt queries a day, using only four 1C 2G k8s pods with one extra for courier, a standard proxied 4c8g Postgres, everything works fine. Really easy to maintain with simple configuration and fully featured API.

But their documentation is really bad, especially in OSS suites. I generally use Claude Code to read their code, find the matching implementation, and try to figure out how to properly configure.

Anyway, if you need self host your IdP, just go for it, you cannot go wrong.

Re:Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self... by trollbridge on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:10PM (#45920585)
Exactly our experience (poor documentation). We switched to Authentik because of this.
Re:Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self... by yetanother-1 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:16PM (#45920662)
May I ask how is your experience with authentik?
Re:Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self... by Bombthecat on Friday November 14, 2025 @05:37AM (#45925659)
I use it, I love it! My go to recommendation now!
Re:Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self... by trollbridge on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:38PM (#45931162)
It’s great. We use it for all of our apps.