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Co-authored-by: Tana M Berry <tana@goauthentik.com>
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title: Overview
title: Outposts
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An outpost is a single deployment of an authentik component, which can be deployed in a completely separate environment:
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authentik can manage the deployment, updating and general lifecycle of an Outpost. To communicate with the underlying platforms on which the outpost is deployed, authentik has several built-in integrations.
- If you've deployed authentik on docker-compose, authentik automatically creates an integration for the local docker socket (See [Docker](./integrations/docker.md)).
- If you've deployed authentik on Docker Compose, authentik automatically creates an integration for the local docker socket (See [Docker](./integrations/docker.md)).
- If you've deployed authentik on Kubernetes, with `kubernetesIntegration` set to true (default), authentik automatically creates an integrations for the local Kubernetes Cluster (See [Kubernetes](./integrations/kubernetes.md)).
To deploy an outpost with these integrations, simply select them during the creation of an Outpost. A background task is started, which creates the container/deployment. You can see that Status on the System Tasks page.