Generating root certificate... done! Generating intermediate certificate... done! ✔ Root certificate: /home/step/certs/root_ca.crt ✔ Root private key: /home/step/secrets/root_ca_key ✔ Root fingerprint: ce58789ce7a681dd4db6c1de8da86af92437c352afbc3d15a5068b5ad2f6e691 ✔ Intermediate certificate: /home/step/certs/intermediate_ca.crt ✔ Intermediate private key: /home/step/secrets/intermediate_ca_key ✔ Database folder: /home/step/db ✔ Default configuration: /home/step/config/defaults.json ✔ Certificate Authority configuration: /home/step/config/ca.json Your PKI is ready to go. To generate certificates for individual services see 'step help ca'. FEEDBACK 😍 🍻 The step utility is not instrumented for usage statistics. It does not phone home. But your feedback is extremely valuable. Any information you can provide regarding how you’re using `step` helps. Please send us a sentence or two, good or bad at feedback@smallstep.com or join GitHub Discussions https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/discussions and our Discord https://u.step.sm/discord. 👉 Your CA administrative password is: YqEf4N9IirF72GlphUJTA9X1UQoZL0kD23zWOtu5 🤫 This will only be displayed once. badger 2026/06/17 07:49:46 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/17 07:49:46 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/17 07:49:46 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce58789ce7a681dd4db6c1de8da86af92437c352afbc3d15a5068b5ad2f6e691 2026/06/17 07:49:46 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... 2026/06/17 07:50:05 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/17 07:50:05 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575} badger 2026/06/17 07:50:05 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/17 07:50:05 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 8.279608ms badger 2026/06/17 07:50:05 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/17 07:50:05 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/17 07:50:06 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/17 07:50:06 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605 badger 2026/06/17 07:50:06 INFO: Replay took: 4.962µs 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/17 07:50:06 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/17 07:50:06 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce58789ce7a681dd4db6c1de8da86af92437c352afbc3d15a5068b5ad2f6e691 2026/06/17 07:50:06 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-17T07:50:06Z" level=info duration="83.369µs" duration-ns=83369 fields.time="2026-06-17T07:50:06Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=9e3edcf4-fc26-4e7e-a12a-9e9efbafd658 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-17T07:50:07Z" level=info duration="312.326µs" duration-ns=312326 fields.time="2026-06-17T07:50:07Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=2f8c56d1-f0a1-44c5-9b19-7b54a3420d61 size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-17T07:50:07Z" level=warning duration="23.223µs" duration-ns=23223 fields.time="2026-06-17T07:50:07Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=f8ee57ef-e232-4809-923b-bb490f00a1ba size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= 2026/06/17 07:50:08 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/17 07:50:08 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169} badger 2026/06/17 07:50:08 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/17 07:50:08 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 9.228783ms badger 2026/06/17 07:50:08 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/17 07:50:08 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/17 07:50:09 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/17 07:50:09 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199 badger 2026/06/17 07:50:09 INFO: Replay took: 4.941µs 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/17 07:50:09 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/17 07:50:09 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce58789ce7a681dd4db6c1de8da86af92437c352afbc3d15a5068b5ad2f6e691 2026/06/17 07:50:09 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-17T07:50:33Z" level=info duration="152.714µs" duration-ns=152714 fields.time="2026-06-17T07:50:33Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=51730741-7ca5-462c-9e93-a63a44bc52af size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id= time="2026-06-17T07:50:33Z" level=info duration="30.636µs" duration-ns=30636 fields.time="2026-06-17T07:50:33Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=1fbf4206-6e2d-4913-94ac-84725ea063e9 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id=