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: aa8a6f59555ed96659950f0a56f8f7ab8cdf1493530087c7207fdd03baae2f39 ✔ 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: bv1pfqGqU9SKn2sHClv5Plp4pvyXq6f9KDUCLAtd 🤫 This will only be displayed once. badger 2026/06/02 13:18:37 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 13:18:37 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 13:18:37 X.509 Root Fingerprint: aa8a6f59555ed96659950f0a56f8f7ab8cdf1493530087c7207fdd03baae2f39 2026/06/02 13:18:37 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... 2026/06/02 13:18:57 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 13:18:57 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575} badger 2026/06/02 13:18:57 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 13:18:57 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 12.54645ms badger 2026/06/02 13:18:57 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 13:18:57 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 13:18:58 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 3ms badger 2026/06/02 13:18:58 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605 badger 2026/06/02 13:18:58 INFO: Replay took: 2.99µs 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 13:18:58 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 13:18:58 X.509 Root Fingerprint: aa8a6f59555ed96659950f0a56f8f7ab8cdf1493530087c7207fdd03baae2f39 2026/06/02 13:18:58 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T13:18:58Z" level=info duration="95.827µs" duration-ns=95827 fields.time="2026-06-02T13:18:58Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=81baeccc-4c65-4a06-864a-b9483c9a4465 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T13:18:58Z" level=info duration="189.237µs" duration-ns=189237 fields.time="2026-06-02T13:18:58Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=2958a8e4-8b16-45f7-9a84-538dc26655f9 size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T13:18:59Z" level=warning duration="28.238µs" duration-ns=28238 fields.time="2026-06-02T13:18:59Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=711d6ae2-5803-4a37-8ec0-94c5a1af5f0b size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= 2026/06/02 13:19:00 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 13:19:00 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169} badger 2026/06/02 13:19:00 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 13:19:00 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 10.793127ms badger 2026/06/02 13:19:00 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 13:19:00 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 13:19:01 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 2ms badger 2026/06/02 13:19:01 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199 badger 2026/06/02 13:19:01 INFO: Replay took: 2.518µs 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 13:19:01 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 13:19:01 X.509 Root Fingerprint: aa8a6f59555ed96659950f0a56f8f7ab8cdf1493530087c7207fdd03baae2f39 2026/06/02 13:19:01 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T13:19:24Z" level=info duration="107.293µs" duration-ns=107293 fields.time="2026-06-02T13:19:24Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=2dd5616f-37b0-4ad2-a021-4419f7340884 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id= time="2026-06-02T13:19:24Z" level=info duration="34.534µs" duration-ns=34534 fields.time="2026-06-02T13:19:24Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=63e7b29e-051e-42bc-9852-b2cfd2f8734a size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id=