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The Smallstep Platform is an opinionated, extensible toolkit for DevSecOps public key infrastructure (PKI). It contains a number of components that can be combined to deliver automated certificate management for a broad set of use cases and implementations. The components include:
- Authorities— Certificate or registration authorities powered by
step-ca - Provisioners— Machinery for securely automating certificate issuance
- Inventories— Catalogs of entities like hosts, services, and people for use with templates and provisioners
- Templates— Customization of x.509 or SSH certificates for any use case
- Events— Observability and alerting for certificate lifecycle activities