Removal of Authentik Script from Community-Scripts

[MickLesk]

Hello all,

After numerous recurring issues, we have decided to remove the Authentik script from our collection.

Despite several attempts to stabilize the installation and update process, Authentik has proven to be increasingly unmaintainable in our ecosystem. Frequent breaking changes, problematic builds, and inconsistent behavior have led to dozens of bug reports and support threads over the last few months.

More critically, the latest versions of Authentik now require at least 14 GB of RAM and 8 CPU cores, which we believe is completely disproportionate for a standalone authentication provider.

⚠️ If the Authentik team eventually decides to provide a maintainable packaging method (such as a .deb package, a clean npm/uv setup, or a prebuilt binary like ActualBudget), we are open to re-evaluating this decision in the future.

Until then, the combination of resource requirements, maintenance complexity, and error frequency makes continued support untenable.

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🧾 References – A Selection of Related Issues

• #4867: Remove Authentik script – merged
• #4851: npm run build-bundled fails
• #4591: /dev/fd/63: SPINNER_PID: unbound variable
• #4364: RAM increased to 10 GB – merged
• #4195: Broken update (duplicate)
• #4156: authentik install error – 24 comments
• #3408: Go build failed – not script-related
• #3391: PEP517 build error – not script-related
• #2879: "Cannot update Authentik"
• #2843: Install hangs on Python 3
• #2327: Embedded Outpost upgrade fix – merged
• #2020: Remove deprecated GO footer – merged
• ...and many more.

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Thank you to everyone who contributed bug reports, PRs, and feedback. Your efforts have been instrumental in helping us make this decision.

— Community-Scripts Maintainers