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: 9458966a304c1a311422261b44032f84cde47c9d373e315508f7caba955a51b7
✔ 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'.

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badger 2026/06/15 04:59:26 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/15 04:59:26 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/15 04:59:26 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 9458966a304c1a311422261b44032f84cde47c9d373e315508f7caba955a51b7
2026/06/15 04:59:26 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
2026/06/15 04:59:45 shutting down ...
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:45 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575}
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:45 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:45 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 8.008989ms
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:45 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:45 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:46 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:46 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:46 INFO: Replay took: 21.662µs
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/15 04:59:46 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/15 04:59:46 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 9458966a304c1a311422261b44032f84cde47c9d373e315508f7caba955a51b7
2026/06/15 04:59:46 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
time="2026-06-15T04:59:46Z" level=info duration="84.37µs" duration-ns=84370 fields.time="2026-06-15T04:59:46Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=b866e325-926e-411f-bf13-a21c710ad683 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
time="2026-06-15T04:59:47Z" level=info duration="179.467µs" duration-ns=179467 fields.time="2026-06-15T04:59:47Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=1806d47a-6a35-4abf-b311-ca44f4f24c2e size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
time="2026-06-15T04:59:47Z" level=warning duration="17.388µs" duration-ns=17388 fields.time="2026-06-15T04:59:47Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=8d21c1cc-5898-4da4-9ca3-a4ea2e89e252 size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
2026/06/15 04:59:48 shutting down ...
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:48 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169}
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:48 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:48 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 8.746586ms
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:48 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:48 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:49 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:49 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199
badger 2026/06/15 04:59:49 INFO: Replay took: 2.483µs
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/15 04:59:49 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/15 04:59:49 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 9458966a304c1a311422261b44032f84cde47c9d373e315508f7caba955a51b7
2026/06/15 04:59:49 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
time="2026-06-15T05:00:14Z" level=info duration="54.176µs" duration-ns=54176 fields.time="2026-06-15T05:00:14Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=b26558e1-8106-4408-8827-5235ea01422e size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=
time="2026-06-15T05:00:14Z" level=info duration="63.69µs" duration-ns=63690 fields.time="2026-06-15T05:00:14Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=69fd5821-dd70-4566-9fa0-729803e220d7 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=
time="2026-06-15T05:00:19Z" level=info duration="20.605µs" duration-ns=20605 fields.time="2026-06-15T05:00:19Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=eed07ce5-9be9-4406-8143-4fc0c111428c size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=