Add external PKI provider documentation #482
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Splits the PKI documentation out into multiple pages, adding documentation for how to set up AWS as an external PKI provider. The local PKI guide is also split into a separate page, which gets linked to from the main PKI page, alongside a link to the AWS page. Signed-off-by: Trond Snekvik <trond@golioth.io>
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Small comments, excited for this!
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| To verify the certificate the device presented, Golioth goes through a list of | ||
| known CAs for your project. If the device's certificate was signed by one of the | ||
| known CAs, Golioth can trust the information within it, and the device can | ||
| start sending and receiving data. |
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Nit. could be a good place to mention ZTP and link to the subsection below.
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| If you do not have a PKI provider service set up, but still want to leverage | ||
| certificate authentication in your development process, you can also [establish | ||
| local PKI](./2-local-pki.md) with [`openssl`](https://github.com/openssl/openssl). |
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and CFSSL? Or are we removing examples of it?
| the certificate. The sole purpose of this identifier is to associate the | ||
| physical device with a device on the Golioth platform. While a device's | ||
| certificate ID may match other device attributes, such as the device name, it | ||
| does not specifically connotate any other meaning. Using a dedicated identifier |
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any other meaning on the Golioth platform?
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Splits the PKI documentation out into multiple pages, adding documentation for how to set up AWS as an external PKI provider.
The local PKI guide is also split into a separate page, which gets linked to from the main PKI page, alongside a link to the AWS page.