Operations

Deployment and operations

Authkits stays inside your Django deployment. The host remains responsible for TLS, secrets, database security and backups, email infrastructure, monitoring, authorization, and the surrounding production environment.

Apply Authkits migrations

Configure Django HTTPS and secure-cookie settings

Activate the commercial entitlement for release builds

Run Django deployment checks

Run Authkits security diagnostics

Schedule transient-state pruning

Activate the release build

Use the Authkits license key only for explicit activation. Persist the returned signed entitlement somewhere appropriate for your deployment.

Terminal

$AUTHKITS_LICENSE_KEY=AK_PRO_...$AUTHKITS_ENTITLEMENT_FILE=/run/secrets/authkits-entitlement.jws$python manage.py authkits_activate

Database support

Authkits uses Django-portable database primitives. The v1 test matrix covers SQLite, PostgreSQL 16, and MySQL 8.4. Your project still owns database routing, backups, replication, pooling, and operational tuning.

Redis is not a base requirement for Authkits rate limits, challenges, sessions, or security state.

Migrate and collect static assets

Terminal

$python manage.py migrate$python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Run production diagnostics

Terminal

$python manage.py check --deploy$python manage.py authkits_check --security$python manage.py authkits_prune --dry-run

authkits_check --security is read-only. It reviews CSRF, cookie posture, password hashing, MFA readiness, proof lifetimes, session tracking, trusted proxies, migrations, and audit persistence.

Schedule transient-state pruning

Run python manage.py authkits_prune from cron, a systemd timer, Kubernetes CronJob, platform scheduler, or your existing task system. Authkits does not require Celery.

Pruning removes eligible expired/revoked transient security rows. It does not prune append-oriented audit history or active credentials, sessions, devices, MFA state, or host-owned data.

Check for updates explicitly

Terminal

$python manage.py authkits_check

Update discovery is an operator action. It does not run during login or ordinary requests.

Licensing behavior

Normal authentication verifies local entitlement state and remains independent of Authkits.com availability.

Licensing and activation