Installer oauth2_proxy avec Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• oauth2-proxy

Historique du projet

The project descends from Bitly's oauth2_proxy. The maintained repository was forked from bitly/OAuth2_Proxy on November 27, 2018, with v3.0.0 and later coming from the fork. On March 29, 2020, the project moved from pusher/oauth2_proxy to oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy, and the binary naming and container image paths followed that rename.

Historique d'adoption

OAuth2 Proxy became a common cloud-native building block because it lets teams add SSO in front of dashboards, admin apps, APIs, and legacy services without modifying the upstream application. CNCF lists OAuth2 Proxy as a Sandbox project accepted on October 2, 2025, which reflects its role as shared identity infrastructure rather than a single-vendor utility.

Modes d'utilisation

Operators deploy oauth2-proxy as a standalone reverse proxy or as an auth middleware integrated with Nginx auth_request, Kubernetes ingress-nginx, Traefik ForwardAuth, Envoy, and similar reverse-proxy stacks. It redirects unauthenticated users to providers such as Google, GitHub, Microsoft Entra ID, login.gov, or a generic OIDC provider, then forwards identity and token information to upstream services through headers when configured.

The project ships compiled binaries, container images, nightly images, and package-manager formulas. Configuration normally combines provider credentials, cookie/session settings, upstream routes, and reverse-proxy headers; larger OIDC sessions can use Redis-backed session storage.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

OAuth2 Proxy is significant because it packages identity as a proxy executable: one binary can retrofit OAuth2/OIDC authentication onto applications, Kubernetes ingresses, and internal tools. Its history also mirrors open-source operations reality: a vendor-originated project, a community fork, an organizational rename, and eventual CNCF Sandbox governance.

Chronologie

• 2017-09-29: oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy repository record was created on GitHub.
• 2018-11-27: The maintained repository forked from bitly/OAuth2_Proxy.
• 2020-03-29: The project was renamed from pusher/oauth2_proxy to oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy.
• 2025-10-02: CNCF accepted OAuth2 Proxy at Sandbox maturity.
• 2026-06-09: GitHub release v7.15.3 was published.

Related projects

• OAuth2 Proxy is commonly paired with Nginx, ingress-nginx, Traefik, Envoy-style reverse proxies, Kubernetes, Redis session storage, and external identity providers. Related identity-layer projects include Dex, Pomerium, Authelia, Ory Oathkeeper, and cloud-provider access proxies.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/oauth2_proxy
• https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
• https://github.com/cncf/sandbox/issues/397
• https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
• https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/releases
• https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/
• https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/configuration/integration/
• https://www.cncf.io/projects/oauth2-proxy/