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title: Integrations overview
sidebar_label: Overview
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## What is an integration?

An integration is how authentik connects to third-party applications, directories, and other identity providers.
Integrations are grouped into two categories: **Applications** and **Sources**.

### Applications

Applications include vendor tools such as Google Workspace, GitHub, Slack, or AWS. These applications can be integrated with authentik to provide single sign-on capabilities to securely authenticate users.

If you want to integrate an application that isn't listed, authentik can be configured to work with most applications that support authentication protocols such as [SAML](/docs/add-secure-apps/providers/saml), [OAuth and OpenID Connect](/docs/add-secure-apps/providers/oauth2).

To learn more, refer to the [Applications](./applications.mdx) page.

### Federated and social sources

Sources let authentik use external user credentials for authentication. Supported source integrations include federated directories like Active Directory and social logins such as Facebook and Twitter. These integrations support all major protocols, including [LDAP](/docs/users-sources/sources/protocols/ldap), [SCIM](/docs/users-sources/sources/protocols/scim), [SAML](/docs/users-sources/sources/protocols/saml), and [OAuth and OpenID Connect](/docs/users-sources/sources/protocols/oauth).

To learn more, refer to the [Sources](/docs/users-sources/sources) page.
