The Entrust PKI Hub platform is a versatile and robust virtual appliance 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.

  • The clusterctl command-line tool for managing the cluster and the Entrust solutions.
  • The web portal for managing Entrust solutions.
  • The web portal (powered by Grafana) to browse logs and metrics on Entrust PKI Hub and the deployed solutions.
  • A Linux operating system meeting the CIS benchmarks.

The platform also wraps the following third-party tools.

Component

Description

Provider

Calico

The internal network fabric.

github.com/projectcalico/calico

CoreDNS

The internal DNS server.

coredns.io  

Docker registry

The container images repository.

docker.com

etcd

The internal database for the cluster configuration.

etcd.io

Grafana

The web portal for browsing logs and metrics.

grafana.com

Istio

The network traffic manager.

istio.io

K3s cluster

The container orchestration system.

k3s.io

Loki

The log aggregation system.

grafana.com

Longhorn

The cluster file system.

longhorn.io

Metrics server

The metrics monitoring system.

kubernetes.io

Prometheus

The metrics aggregation system.

prometheus.io

Promtail

The agent that ships local logs to Loki.

grafana.com

Entrust PKI streamlines and simplifies deployment across various environments of the following Entrust solutions.