authentik: deploy outpost as worker-role container with dial-back

In authentik 2026.8.x the proxy-provider URL space (/outpost.goauthentik.io/*)
is served by the Rust worker binary, not the server — verified live: with a
tenant-matching Host header, /if/flow/... answers 200 on the server while
/auth/caddy still 404s. The outpost instance existed in the DB but no process
ever served it, so Caddy's forward_auth subrequests hit a 404 and browsers got
authentik's own Not-Found page instead of the authentication flow.

The new unit runs the same image as server/worker with Exec=worker and flips
into outpost mode via AUTHENTIK_HOST/AUTHENTIK_INSECURE/AUTHENTIK_TOKEN (the
token is read from the DB into the host .env at deploy time; it never enters
the repo). It dials back to core over websocket and serves forward-auth on its
own 9000. Deploy handler restarts only this unit — the rest of the stack is
untouched.

dankclaw/authentik/quadlet/authentik-outpost.container

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Quadlet unit: Authentik outpost (rootless, boot-persistent).
+#
+# Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/authentik-outpost.container
+# Unit name: authentik-outpost.service (podman 5.x drops the container- prefix)
+#
+# In authentik 2026.8.x the proxy-provider URL space (/outpost.goauthentik.io/*)
+# is served by the Rust worker binary, not the server — verified live: with a
+# tenant-matching Host header, /if/flow/... answers 200 on the server while
+# /auth/caddy still 404s. This container runs the same image as the server and
+# worker units; Exec=worker selects the Rust worker role, and the
+# AUTHENTIK_HOST/AUTHENTIK_TOKEN env flips it into outpost mode: it dials back
+# to core over websocket (ws/outpost/<uuid>/) and serves forward-auth for Caddy
+# on its own 9000. No published port — Caddy reaches it by container DNS on
+# dankclaw_default; the token lives in the host .env, never in this repo.
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Authentik outpost container
+After=network.target authentik-postgres.service authentik-server.service
+Wants=authentik-server.service
+
+[Container]
+ContainerName=authentik-outpost
+Image=ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2026.8.0
+Exec=worker
+Network=dankclaw_default
+EnvironmentFile=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/dankclaw/.env
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=authentik-postgres
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=authentik
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__PASSWORD=${AUTHENTIK_PG_PASS}
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY=${AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY}
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_HOST=https://auth.franksdank.cloud
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_INSECURE=false
+Environment=AUTHENTIK_TOKEN=${AUTHENTIK_OUTPOST_TOKEN}
+Volume=/home/dank/authentik/data:/data
+User=0:0
+
+[Service]
+EnvironmentFile=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/dankclaw/.env
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

scripts/deploy-remote.sh

@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ service_is_allowed() {
         dankclaw:hermes-dashboard|dankclaw:hermes-webui|dankclaw:prometheus|dankclaw:grafana|\
         dankclaw:loki|dankclaw:alloy|dankclaw:node-exporter|\
         dankclaw:authentik-postgres|dankclaw:authentik-server|\
-        dankclaw:authentik-worker|dankclaw:anubis|dankclaw:caddy|dankclaw:homepage|\
+        dankclaw:authentik-worker|dankclaw:authentik-outpost|dankclaw:anubis|\
+        dankclaw:caddy|dankclaw:homepage|\
         dankclaw:frank-default-large|dankclaw:frank-default-npu|\
         dankserver:mariadb|dankserver:redis|dankserver:romm|\
         dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|\
@@ -550,6 +551,20 @@ deploy_authentik() {
     systemctl --user start authentik-worker.service
 }
 
+deploy_authentik_outpost() {
+    # The outpost is the worker-role binary of the same server image; it dials
+    # back to core over websocket and serves /outpost.goauthentik.io/* for
+    # Caddy's forward_auth. Image already in storage — zero pulls. Restarting
+    # only this unit cycles auth for guarded vhosts for a few seconds; the
+    # rest of the stack is untouched.
+    cp dankclaw/authentik/quadlet/authentik-outpost.container "$quadlet_unit_dir/"
+    systemctl --user daemon-reload
+    systemctl --user restart authentik-outpost.service
+    sleep 5
+    systemctl --user is-active --quiet authentik-outpost.service || \
+        echo "WARN: authentik-outpost did not come up active" >&2
+}
+
 deploy_anubis() {
     # Anubis is the bot-challenge proxy in front of the guarded vhosts.
     # The image lives on ghcr.io; pull once, then the unit runs it from
@@ -624,6 +639,9 @@ deploy_service() {
         authentik-postgres|authentik-server|authentik-worker)
             deploy_authentik
             ;;
+        authentik-outpost)
+            deploy_authentik_outpost
+            ;;
         anubis) deploy_anubis ;;
         frank-default-large) deploy_llm_large ;;
         frank-default-small) deploy_llm_small ;;