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Image registry.ops.eblu.me/blumeops/authentik:v1.0.0-nix built
via Nix on ringtail and verified in zot registry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-20 10:12:50 -08:00

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Build Authentik Container Image

Build and publish a Nix-based container image for Authentik to the local registry.

Context

Discovered while attempting deploy-authentik: the deployment references registry.ops.eblu.me/blumeops/authentik:v1.0.0-nix which doesn't exist. Authentik's nixpkgs package (pkgs.authentik) provides the ak wrapper which orchestrates a Go server binary and Python Django worker.

What to Do

  1. Verify containers/authentik/default.nix builds on ringtail (the Nix builder runs there)
  2. The ak entrypoint needs bash (included via bashInteractive) and orchestrates both server and worker subcommands
  3. Tag and release: mise run container-tag-and-release authentik v1.0.0
  4. Verify the -nix tagged image appears in the registry

What We Learned

  • The entrypoint is ak (bash wrapper), not authentik (Go binary)
  • ak server runs the Go HTTP server, ak worker runs the Python Django worker
  • pkgs.authentik bundles Go binary, Python environment, and static assets via wrapProgram
  • nixpkgs has v2025.10.1, upstream latest is 2025.12.4 — acceptable for initial deployment
  • Container needs bashInteractive since ak is a bash script

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