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: 481ed83544c37878fd7f93f722745813e0846050a50cfe9e8a18c58febaaad98 ✔ 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: 0Bx1LDZfrH0cpwD53TGhRLhBOYKQciSbnpfgXZff 🤫 This will only be displayed once. badger 2026/06/02 08:01:19 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 08:01:19 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 08:01:19 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 481ed83544c37878fd7f93f722745813e0846050a50cfe9e8a18c58febaaad98 2026/06/02 08:01:19 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... 2026/06/02 08:01:38 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 08:01:38 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575} badger 2026/06/02 08:01:38 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 08:01:38 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 7.556313ms badger 2026/06/02 08:01:38 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 08:01:38 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 08:01:39 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 3ms badger 2026/06/02 08:01:39 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605 badger 2026/06/02 08:01:39 INFO: Replay took: 2.75µs 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 08:01:39 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 08:01:39 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 481ed83544c37878fd7f93f722745813e0846050a50cfe9e8a18c58febaaad98 2026/06/02 08:01:39 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T08:01:50Z" level=info duration="50.582µs" duration-ns=50582 fields.time="2026-06-02T08:01:50Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=627e9465-fac4-4cc2-bfe6-94adb90e52c3 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T08:01:50Z" level=info duration="127.302µs" duration-ns=127302 fields.time="2026-06-02T08:01:50Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=a261b036-4248-4d3f-8a92-cd1e2b3fdb0d size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T08:01:51Z" level=warning duration="20.443µs" duration-ns=20443 fields.time="2026-06-02T08:01:51Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=52a6b266-f5d4-47f7-ad82-c8abb842ea0f size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= 2026/06/02 08:01:51 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 08:01:51 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169} badger 2026/06/02 08:01:51 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 08:01:51 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 12.56883ms badger 2026/06/02 08:01:51 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 08:01:51 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 08:01:52 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/02 08:01:52 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199 badger 2026/06/02 08:01:52 INFO: Replay took: 3.551µs 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 08:01:52 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 08:01:52 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 481ed83544c37878fd7f93f722745813e0846050a50cfe9e8a18c58febaaad98 2026/06/02 08:01:52 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T08:02:05Z" level=info duration="91.328µs" duration-ns=91328 fields.time="2026-06-02T08:02:05Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=7f89c718-1443-423e-83f7-dc79967ed1a8 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id= time="2026-06-02T08:02:05Z" level=info duration="35.925µs" duration-ns=35925 fields.time="2026-06-02T08:02:05Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=9691893e-c637-4c04-9632-92bb445bdd2b size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/7.88.1 user-id=