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: ce6d55f87b753b4a3fc039756576d69ada6bc110ac0cb603327522aeabe327d2
✔ 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 2026/06/22 12:06:18 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/22 12:06:18 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/22 12:06:18 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce6d55f87b753b4a3fc039756576d69ada6bc110ac0cb603327522aeabe327d2
2026/06/22 12:06:18 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
2026/06/22 12:06:37 shutting down ...
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:37 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575}
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:37 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:37 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 9.404412ms
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:37 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:37 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:38 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:38 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:38 INFO: Replay took: 3.598µs
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/22 12:06:38 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/22 12:06:38 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce6d55f87b753b4a3fc039756576d69ada6bc110ac0cb603327522aeabe327d2
2026/06/22 12:06:38 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
time="2026-06-22T12:06:48Z" level=info duration="111.04µs" duration-ns=111040 fields.time="2026-06-22T12:06:48Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=773cc0c6-8ff9-4c76-a253-ce9e00128862 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
time="2026-06-22T12:06:49Z" level=info duration="340.92µs" duration-ns=340920 fields.time="2026-06-22T12:06:49Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=21e3a39f-13a8-42ed-b0a4-fa5ae22f9db3 size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
time="2026-06-22T12:06:49Z" level=warning duration="29.203µs" duration-ns=29203 fields.time="2026-06-22T12:06:49Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=682a9d12-0d35-40b8-8f1b-752828b1a25e size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id=
2026/06/22 12:06:50 shutting down ...
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:50 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169}
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:50 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:50 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 9.357278ms
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:50 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:50 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:51 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 2ms
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:51 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199
badger 2026/06/22 12:06:51 INFO: Replay took: 5.295µs
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64)
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json
2026/06/22 12:06:51 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1
2026/06/22 12:06:51 X.509 Root Fingerprint: ce6d55f87b753b4a3fc039756576d69ada6bc110ac0cb603327522aeabe327d2
2026/06/22 12:06:51 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ...
time="2026-06-22T12:07:06Z" level=info duration="150.279µs" duration-ns=150279 fields.time="2026-06-22T12:07:06Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=6efb326f-f0fc-49cd-b60b-e5f29a558a2c size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=
time="2026-06-22T12:07:06Z" level=info duration="40.427µs" duration-ns=40427 fields.time="2026-06-22T12:07:06Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=55858d18-a008-44c4-a49f-7547c55d585e size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=