Citadel

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Citadel is Istio’s security component responsible for issuing and managing cryptographic identities and certificates for services in a mesh.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Citadel canonical 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Istio component ⓘ
security component ⓘ
appliesTo services in a service mesh ⓘ
associatedWith Istio security architecture ⓘ
category service mesh security component ⓘ
enables secure communication between services ⓘ
ensures authenticity of service-to-service traffic ⓘ
confidentiality of service-to-service traffic ⓘ
integrity of service-to-service traffic ⓘ
hasRole issuing certificates ⓘ
issuing cryptographic identities ⓘ
managing certificates ⓘ
managing cryptographic identities ⓘ
implements Istio authentication policies ⓘ
interactsWith Envoy sidecars ⓘ
issues X.509 certificates ⓘ
manages service certificates ⓘ
service identities ⓘ
operatesIn control plane of Istio ⓘ
partOf Istio ⓘ
provides certificate management for services ⓘ
identity management for services ⓘ
relatedTo Istio sidecar proxies ⓘ
responsibleFor certificate revocation handling ⓘ
key and certificate rotation ⓘ
secure key provisioning ⓘ
supports mutual TLS authentication ⓘ
workload identity provisioning ⓘ
usedIn service mesh security ⓘ
uses public key infrastructure ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Istio → controlPlaneComponent → Citadel ⓘ