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: 227a29cc138994fdd89d296c07f9c3651775578dbf6e44464d3bba55dbad826c ✔ 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: JrAovKcLUJIyhMWFiTcCZvCwV1jZCWB4yaO4ULlU 🤫 This will only be displayed once. badger 2026/06/02 10:00:57 INFO: All 0 tables opened in 0s 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 10:00:57 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 10:00:57 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 227a29cc138994fdd89d296c07f9c3651775578dbf6e44464d3bba55dbad826c 2026/06/02 10:00:57 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... 2026/06/02 10:01:16 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 10:01:16 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:1575} badger 2026/06/02 10:01:16 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 10:01:16 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 1 tables, add 1 tables, took 10.268527ms badger 2026/06/02 10:01:16 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 10:01:16 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 10:01:17 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/02 10:01:17 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 1605 badger 2026/06/02 10:01:17 INFO: Replay took: 4.863µs 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 10:01:17 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 10:01:17 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 227a29cc138994fdd89d296c07f9c3651775578dbf6e44464d3bba55dbad826c 2026/06/02 10:01:17 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T10:01:17Z" level=info duration="87.444µs" duration-ns=87444 fields.time="2026-06-02T10:01:17Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=56becfae-effe-433d-b39c-91641c7eee77 size=16 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T10:01:18Z" level=info duration="329.343µs" duration-ns=329343 fields.time="2026-06-02T10:01:18Z" method=GET name=ca path="/provisioners?limit=100" protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=5f90b460-c8c2-49ba-a97c-4c806769963c size=867 status=200 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= time="2026-06-02T10:01:18Z" level=warning duration="29.437µs" duration-ns=29437 fields.time="2026-06-02T10:01:18Z" method=GET name=ca path=/admin/admins protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address="::1" request-id=63be1796-5dde-476b-ac56-99650e12e543 size=19 status=404 user-agent="Smallstep CLI/0.28.7 (linux/amd64)" user-id= 2026/06/02 10:01:19 shutting down ... badger 2026/06/02 10:01:19 INFO: Storing value log head: {Fid:0 Len:30 Offset:3169} badger 2026/06/02 10:01:19 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Running compaction: {level:0 score:1.73 dropPrefixes:[]} for level: 0 badger 2026/06/02 10:01:19 INFO: LOG Compact 0->1, del 2 tables, add 1 tables, took 10.911726ms badger 2026/06/02 10:01:19 INFO: [Compactor: 173] Compaction for level: 0 DONE badger 2026/06/02 10:01:19 INFO: Force compaction on level 0 done badger 2026/06/02 10:01:20 INFO: All 1 tables opened in 1ms badger 2026/06/02 10:01:20 INFO: Replaying file id: 0 at offset: 3199 badger 2026/06/02 10:01:20 INFO: Replay took: 2.711µs 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Building new tls configuration using step-ca x509 Signer Interface 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Starting Smallstep CA/0.28.4 (linux/amd64) 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Documentation: https://u.step.sm/docs/ca 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Community Discord: https://u.step.sm/discord 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Config file: /home/step/config/ca.json 2026/06/02 10:01:20 The primary server URL is https://localhost:9000 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Root certificates are available at https://localhost:9000/roots.pem 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Additional configured hostnames: 127.0.0.1 2026/06/02 10:01:20 X.509 Root Fingerprint: 227a29cc138994fdd89d296c07f9c3651775578dbf6e44464d3bba55dbad826c 2026/06/02 10:01:20 Serving HTTPS on :9000 ... time="2026-06-02T10:01:42Z" level=info duration="192.039µs" duration-ns=192039 fields.time="2026-06-02T10:01:42Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=f5e9754d-1ef8-454a-a194-d4a15c0d570b size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id= time="2026-06-02T10:01:43Z" level=info duration="40.333µs" duration-ns=40333 fields.time="2026-06-02T10:01:43Z" method=GET name=ca path=/health protocol=HTTP/2.0 referer= remote-address=172.31.102.33 request-id=8afc41b1-ec68-4e1e-929a-d73847f199f1 size=16 status=200 user-agent=curl/8.5.0 user-id=