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I'm actually on the inverse side of this now:

I find Passport to be a dumpster fire of complexity and foot guns while Ory Kratos[0] + Ory Oathkeeper[1] have been the simplest way to add Auth to a project now (even for an MVP).

I've been using the zero trust proxy tutorial[2] and copy pasting the configs over. I just chuck some containers into Docker Compose and it goes. I don't even have to write the UI because Kratos does that but.

0: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos

1: https://www.ory.sh/docs/oathkeeper

2: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/guides/zero-trust-iap-proxy-i...



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