Entrust PKI Hub is a versatile and robust virtual appliance that streamlines and simplifies deployment across various environments of the following Entrust solutions.
- Certificate Authorities
- CA Gateway
- Certificate Enrollment Gateway
- Certificate Hub
- Timestamping Authority
- Entrust Validation Authority
Entrust PKI Hub is tested with different virtualization platforms and cloud providers.
- VMware vSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Nutanix
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
At a lower level, PKI Hub comprises the following components.
Cluster controller
The clusterctl command-line tool for managing the cluster and the Entrust solutions.
Management console
The web portal for managing Entrust solutions.
See the corresponding solution guide for examples of managing a specific solution.
Logs and metrics console
The web portal (powered by Grafana) to browse logs and metrics on Entrust PKI Hub and the deployed solutions.
Operating system
Entrust PKI Hub runs on a Linux operating system meeting the CIS benchmarks.
Other tools
The platform wraps the following third-party tools.
Component | Description | Provider |
|---|---|---|
Calico | The internal network fabric. | |
CoreDNS | The internal DNS server. | |
Docker registry | The container images repository. | |
etcd | The internal database for the cluster configuration. | |
Grafana | The web portal for browsing logs and metrics. | |
Istio | The network traffic manager. | |
K3s cluster | The container orchestration system. | |
Loki | The log aggregation system. | |
Longhorn | The cluster file system. | |
Metrics server | The metrics monitoring system. | |
Prometheus | The metrics aggregation system. | |
Promtail | The agent that ships local logs to Loki. |