CZERTAINLY Core

This repository is part of the commercial open source project CZERTAINLY. You can find more information about the project at CZERTAINLY repository, including the contribution guide.

Core provides the basic functionality for the CZERTAINLY platform. It implements the logic for the certificate lifecycle management and handles all related tasks. You can think about it as a brain of the CZERTAINLY platform.

There are 2 types of communication that the core is responsible for:

• client requesting management operations on top of certificates
• connector that provides with the functionality for specific technologies

Core is performing consistent operation on top of the certificates. The management of certificates is abstracted through CZERTAINLY objects, for example:

Object	Short description
Connector	Provides with the functionality for specific technologies (defined by functional group and supported types)
Credential	Credential of various types to be used by connectors and other objects
Authority	Representing certification authority access
RA profile	Configuration of the service for certificate lifecycle management (abstraction of attributes for specific certificate type, including available APIs)
Discovery	Schedule discovery process for searching of certificates in various sources
Certificate	Certificate consisting of attributes and related meta-data
Entity	Represents the entity that is going to use the certificates
Group	Grouping of different certificates based on different requirements

RA profile

RA profile is one of the main concepts of the core. RA profile represents the certificate management service containing all specific attributes and configuration you need for specific certificate and use-case, which may be for example web server certificate, authentication certificates, etc.

Each certificate type and use-case may has its own technical, business, and compliance requirements. RA profile is the abstraction of these requirements.

The relation between RA profile and other objects may be defined according the following scheme:

Authority----------------\
                          \
Certificate attributes----\\           /----certificate
                           \\         /
Compliance profile---------\\\       //-----certificate
                            RA profile
Approval profile-----------///       \\-----certificate
                           //         \
Interfaces----------------//           \----certificate
                          /
Authorization------------/

For more information, refer to the CZERTAINLY documentation.

Certificate inventory

Certificate inventory contains all certificate that were discovered or were imported to the platform. Each certificate provides comprehensive and consistent information which can be managed.

Lifecycle operations

The following basic lifecycle operations are supported for each certificate:

• issue
• renew
• revoke

Operations can be automated by the core, but also can be performed manually by the user.

Certificate relations

Certificate has relation to other objects that helps with the management and automation of the certificate lifecycle:

Entity------------\
                   \
Group--------------\\
                    certificate-------RA profile
Discovery----------//
                   /
Owner-------------/

For more information, refer to the CZERTAINLY documentation.

Monitoring and reporting

For monitoring and reporting, you can use the information provided by the core. We strongly recommend trying the Operator UI that is part of the CZERTAINLY subscription.