diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3e69736..391733c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ This repository defines the **system infrastructure only**. Specific components - [Vertically scaling the Read Replica](documentation/database-upgrade.md) - [Setup Performance Testing](documentation/performance_testing.md) - [Database Access - dump with bastion](documentation/rds-bastion.md) +- [DEP OCSP Service Overview](documentation/ocsp-over-internet.md) ## CI/CD diff --git a/documentation/azure-images/ocsp-nat.png b/documentation/azure-images/ocsp-nat.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b09edff Binary files /dev/null and b/documentation/azure-images/ocsp-nat.png differ diff --git a/documentation/ocsp-over-internet.md b/documentation/ocsp-over-internet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8061234 --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/ocsp-over-internet.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +- ### OCSP + + NAC currently required to work with OCSP endpoint within internal subnet issued by internal CA and no requirement to send traffic over the internet, however, as a part of DEP(Digital Education Project) this service needed to onboard external CA which required NAC to send OCSP traffic over the internet. + +- As a part of this we needed to provide a static set of IPS in order for the supplier to ALLOW-LIST NAC on their service. + +Currently, NAC's cluster tasks are auto assigned with a public IP and these are subjected to change everytime service gets re-deployed. +In order to solve this problem a SOURCE-NAT was configured using AWS NAT Gateway for traffic bound to DEP OCSP IP range. + +#### High level solution outlining DEP OCSP traffic + +![High level solution outlining DEP OCSP traffic +](../documentation/azure-images/ocsp-nat.png) + +- ### Limitation + + As per the best practice NAT should have been deployed in to multi-az, however, due to the limitation on the available subnet and CIDR limitation assigned to this VPC, it was not possible to deploy NAT across all availability zones without significant refactoring of the existing VPC. + +- In the event of an availability zone failures NAC DEP service will be degraded until AWS brings back the service.This has been raised as risk.