Getting Started
Choose A Database
Rauthy's default database is Hiqlite. Under the hood, it's using SQLite, but it adds an additional layer on top making it highly-available using the Raft Consensus Algorithm. Don't let the SQLite engine under the hood fool you, it will handle most probably anything you throw at it, as long as your disks are fast enough. Hiqlite can easily saturate a 1GBit/s network connection with just database (write) traffic. All reads are local, which means they are way faster than with Postgres in any scenario.
If you already have a Postgres up an running with everything set up anyway, you might want to choose it as your main DB, but I do not recommend deploying a Postgres instance just for Rauthy. This would be a waste of precious resources.
If you want to migrate between databases at a later point, you can do this at any time very easily.
Just take a look at the Reference Config and the variable MIGRATE_DB_FROM.
Container Images
Rauthy versions before 0.27.0 had different container images depending on the database you choose. However, this is
not the case anymore. There is only a single image which works with any configuration. It works on x86_64 and arm64
architectures.
At the time of writing, you can run Rauthy either with Docker or inside Kubernetes.
Both Getting Started guides do not cover all set up you might want to do for going into production. Especially the
Docker guide is more for testing.
You should take a look at the Reference Config to see, what you might want to configure
additionally. A dedicated Going into production guide will be written in the future.