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: 037fc587e453b64333631034ad4a78bac5d12780b66dc406c0722b6280fb4b30 ✔ 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: 7le8W2uA0VW5x6ia9PhPPFvpyEY9WwDCqV3hP8Rm 🤫 This will only be displayed once. badger 2026/06/02 09:08:22 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 09:08:22 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 09:08:22 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 037fc587e453b64333631034ad4a78bac5d12780b66dc406c0722b6280fb4b30 2026/06/02 09:08:22 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... 2026/06/02 09:08:41 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 09:08:41 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575} badger 2026/06/02 09:08:41 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 09:08:41 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 8.686321ms badger 2026/06/02 09:08:41 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 09:08:41 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 09:08:42 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/02 09:08:42 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605 badger 2026/06/02 09:08:42 INFO: Replay took: 5.178µs 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 09:08:42 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 09:08:42 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 037fc587e453b64333631034ad4a78bac5d12780b66dc406c0722b6280fb4b30 2026/06/02 09:08:42 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T09:08:42Z" level=info duration="73.242µs" duration-ns=73242 fields.time="2026-06-02T09:08:42Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=339d7504-7424-417c-b1d7-b4aa2ac620f2 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T09:08:42Z" level=info duration="211.877µs" duration-ns=211877 fields.time="2026-06-02T09:08:42Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=727e3d61-c882-45b2-b6ef-9c12a965011a size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T09:08:43Z" level=warning duration="15.783µs" duration-ns=15783 fields.time="2026-06-02T09:08:43Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=4d704f5a-5b81-4b4f-ab8b-4e371a2a66b7 size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= 2026/06/02 09:08:44 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 09:08:44 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169} badger 2026/06/02 09:08:44 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 09:08:44 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 7.902697ms badger 2026/06/02 09:08:44 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 09:08:44 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 09:08:45 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 3ms badger 2026/06/02 09:08:45 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199 badger 2026/06/02 09:08:45 INFO: Replay took: 7.437µs 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 09:08:45 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 09:08:45 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 037fc587e453b64333631034ad4a78bac5d12780b66dc406c0722b6280fb4b30 2026/06/02 09:08:45 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T09:08:59Z" level=info duration="76.298µs" duration-ns=76298 fields.time="2026-06-02T09:08:59Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=cac6b26e-7093-4430-9237-1ba50eaa3cb7 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id= time="2026-06-02T09:08:59Z" level=info duration="32.434µs" duration-ns=32434 fields.time="2026-06-02T09:08:59Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=8cd4a0e9-96f6-4c70-ba1b-8d2319de8e65 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=