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Automated authentik Agent deployment

authentik Agent can be deployed at scale to multiple devices via Mobile Device Management (MDM) and automation tools.

Prerequisites​

You must configure your authentik deployment to support the authentik Agent.

Create an enrollment token​

If you have already created have an enrollment token, skip to the next section.

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Endpoint Devices > Connectors.
  3. Click on the authentik Agent connector that you created when configuring your authentik deployment to support the authentik agent.
  4. Under Enrollment Tokens, click Create, and configure the following settings:
    • Token name: provide a descriptive name for the token
    • Device group (optional): select a device access group for the device to be added to after completing enrollment
    • Expiring (optional): set whether or not the enrollment token will expire
  5. Click Create.

Windows​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Endpoint Devices > Connectors.
  3. Click on the authentik Agent connector that you created when configuring your authentik deployment to support the authentik agent.
  4. Under Setup, select the enrollment token that you wish to use for enrolling devices.
  5. Click Windows and then click either Download or Copy to obtain your SyncML MDM configuration snippet.

This SyncML snippet can be used by Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager and other MDM tools to deploy the changes required to support the authentik Agent.

The following two registry keys (REG_SZ) are added by the configuration snippet:

  • HKLM/SOFTWARE/authentik Security Inc./Platform/ManagedConfig/RegistrationToken
  • HKLM/SOFTWARE/authentik Security Inc./Platform/ManagedConfig/URL

macOS​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Endpoint Devices > Connectors.
  3. Click on the authentik Agent connector that you created when configuring your authentik deployment to support the authentik agent.
  4. Under Setup, select the enrollment token that you wish to use for enrolling devices.
  5. Click macOS and then click either Download or Copy to obtain your MDM policy.

This policy can be used by Apple Business Manager, Fleet, and other MDM tools to deploy the changes required to support the authentik Agent.

MDM only

Apple requires that this policy be applied to a device via an MDM tool. It will not function if manually applied to a device.

User registration​

Upon deploying the authentik Agent to a device, the user will receive a notification asking them to register with authentik. When a user follows the registration they are asked to authenticate with authentik, once authenticated the device is enrolled in authentik and associated with the user.