goauthentik / goauthentik/authentik

AUTHENTIK_ env var specification needed.

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Description

### Do you see an area that can be clarified or expanded, a technical inaccuracy, or a broken link?

In the configuration documentation, the env vars are explained in general but not what influence they have, if they were defined in both server and worker or which env var needs to be accessible for which container.

### Link

https://docs.goauthentik.io/install-config/configuration/

### Solution

I suggest a "container" field in the documentation that indicates which config env var belongs to which container or what could break. (i.e. AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__HTTP in container server)

### Additional context

We used a template in the container configuration to parse the same env vars into the server and worker.
That worked till 2026.5, then the server couldn't start the http server.
AUTHENTIK_LISTEN__HTTP was defined in both, server and worker, resulting in the server not being able to start up the http server.

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