cloud-ca

Cloud CA demonstration built using AWS CA Terraform Module

IMPORTANT

If cloning this repository to use as a basis for your own CA, it's essential that you:

• Update to the latest version of the CA
• Delete the CSR files in the csr directory
• Delete references to these files in locals.tf and tls.json
• Replace the contents of revoked.json with an empty list []
• Change the domain name listed in variables.tf to one for which there's a hosted zone in your AWS account

CA Overview

• ECDSA Issuing and Root CA
• Public certs and CRL
• Environment: dev
• Certs issued from CSR files
• Revoked certificate

CA Certificates and CRLs

CRL Distribution Point (CDP)

CDP - Root CA	CDP - Issuing CA
http://certs.cloud-ca.com/serverless-root-ca-dev.crl	http://certs.cloud-ca.com/serverless-issuing-ca-dev.crl

Authority Information Access (AIA)

AIA - Root CA	AIA - Issuing CA
http://certs.cloud-ca.com/serverless-root-ca-dev.crt	http://certs.cloud-ca.com/serverless-issuing-ca-dev.crt

CA Bundle (for TrustStore)

CA Bundle
http://certs.cloud-ca.com/serverless-ca-bundle-dev.pem

Create client certificate

• log in to the CA AWS account with your terminal using AWS CLI, e.g. aws sso login or set AWS environment variables
• from the root of this repository:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate (Linux / MacOS)
.venv/scripts/activate (Windows PowerShell)
pip install -r tests/requirements-dev.txt
python tests/client-cert.py

• you will now have a client key and certificate on your laptop at ~/certs
• bundled Root CA and Issuing CA certs are also provided

Local Development - Terraform

terraform init -backend-config=bucket={YOUR_TERRAFORM_STATE_BUCKET} -backend-config=key=cloud-ca -backend-config=region={YOUR_TERRAFORM_STATE_REGION}
terraform plan
terraform apply