About
Last updated on May 23, 2026
What is Authelia?
Authelia is a project with several open source developers who contribute to the project in their free time. We are not a company or another type of incorporated entity, and do not have any monetization model. Individuals and Organizations are free to contribute financially or with their time to the documentation or code base.
Teams
The Authelia project has two teams: the Core Team and the Maintainers Team. For detailed descriptions of each team’s roles, responsibilities, and access to sensitive resources see the governance policy.
Sponsors
Authelia is sponsored by the organizations listed below. The organizations below sponsor us completely voluntarily and do not expect anything additional other than us mentioning them or having a code of conduct, and some do not even require either of those things.
Please see the sponsorship section of the financial contributing page for more information on how to become a sponsor.
Balto
Our apt repository was previously hosted thanks to Balto. We now host it ourselves on Netlify due to the unfortunate fact that Balto has shut down. We graciously want to thank Balto for their support of and generosity towards the Authelia project.
Buildkite
Our continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines are hosted by Buildkite.
Crowdin
Our localization platform is hosted by Crowdin.
JetBrains
Our development IDE’s are provided by JetBrains.
Microsoft
Our pipeline agents which we rely on for productivity are hosted on Azure and our git repositories are hosted on GitHub which are both Microsoft products.
Netlify
Our website and documentation are built and hosted by Netlify.
Compliance
The following section contains various compliance related information.
Key Individuals
There is no key individual who if they were incapacitated or unavailable would prevent future operations of the project.
All of the following areas can be reset or are otherwise accessible to all of the members of the Core Team:
- Private Keys
- Access Rights
- Passwords
Bus Factor
The Authelia team has a bus factor of 3. Meaning that the project would stall if 3 team members were suddenly hit by a bus.