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# Getting started with docker
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This guide shows how to set up [step certificates](https://github.com/smallstep/certificates) using docker.
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For short, we will use **step-ca** to refer to [step certificates](https://github.com/smallstep/certificates).
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## Requirements
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1. To follow this guide you will need to [install step
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cli](https://github.com/smallstep/cli#installation-guide).
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2. Get the docker image.
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Get the latest version of **step-ca** from the [step-ca docker
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hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/smallstep/step-ca):
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```sh
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$ docker pull smallstep/step-ca
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```
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3. Create the required volumes.
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We need to create a volume in docker where we will store our PKI as well as
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the step-ca configuration file.
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```sh
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$ docker volume create step
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```
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4. Initialize the PKI.
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The simple way to do this is to run an interactive terminal:
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```sh
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$ docker run -it -v step:/home/step smallstep/step-ca sh
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~ $ step ca init
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✔ What would you like to name your new PKI? (e.g. Smallstep): Smallstep
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✔ What DNS names or IP addresses would you like to add to your new CA? (e.g. ca.smallstep.com[,1.1.1.1,etc.]): localhost
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✔ What address will your new CA listen at? (e.g. :443): :9000
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✔ What would you like to name the first provisioner for your new CA? (e.g. you@smallstep.com): admin
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✔ What do you want your password to be? [leave empty and we'll generate one]: <your password here>
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Generating root certificate...
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all done!
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Generating intermediate certificate...
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all done!
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✔ Root certificate: /home/step/certs/root_ca.crt
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✔ Root private key: /home/step/secrets/root_ca_key
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✔ Root fingerprint: f9e45ae9ec5d42d702ce39fd9f3125372ce54d0b29a5ff3016b31d9b887a61a4
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✔ Intermediate certificate: /home/step/certs/intermediate_ca.crt
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✔ Intermediate private key: /home/step/secrets/intermediate_ca_key
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✔ Default configuration: /home/step/config/defaults.json
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✔ Certificate Authority configuration: /home/step/config/ca.json
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Your PKI is ready to go. To generate certificates for individual services see 'step help ca'.
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```
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5. Place the PKI root password in a known location.
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Our image is expecting the password to be placed in `/home/step/secrets/password`
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you can simply go in to the terminal again and write that file:
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```sh
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$ docker run -it -v step:/home/step smallstep/step-ca sh
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~ $ echo <your password here> > /home/step/secrets/password
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```
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At this time everything is ready to run step-ca!
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## Running step certificates
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Now that we have configured our environment we are ready to run step-ca.
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Expose the server address locally and run the step-ca with:
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```sh
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$ docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:9000:9000 -v step:/home/step smallstep/step-ca
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```
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Let's verify that the service is running with curl:
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```sh
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$ curl https://localhost:9000/health
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curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
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More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
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curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
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of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
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bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
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using the --cacert option.
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If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
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the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
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problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
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not match the domain name in the URL).
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If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
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the -k (or --insecure) option.
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HTTPS-proxy has similar options --proxy-cacert and --proxy-insecure.
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```
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It's working but curl complains because the certificate is not signed by an
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accepted certificate authority.
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## Dev environment bootstrap
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To initialize the development environment we need to grab the Root fingerprint
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from the [Initializing the PKI](#initializing-the-pki) step earlier. In the
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case of this example:
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`f9e45ae9ec5d42d702ce39fd9f3125372ce54d0b29a5ff3016b31d9b887a61a4`. With the
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fingerprint we can bootstrap our dev environment.
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```sh
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$ step ca bootstrap --ca-url https://localhost:9000 --fingerprint f9e45ae9ec5d42d702ce39fd9f3125372ce54d0b29a5ff3016b31d9b887a61a4 --install
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The root certificate has been saved in ~/.step/certs/root_ca.crt.
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Your configuration has been saved in ~/.step/config/defaults.json.
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Installing the root certificate in the system truststore... done.
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```
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Now [step cli](https://github.com/smallstep/cli) is configured to use step-ca
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and our new root certificate is trusted by our local environment.
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```sh
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$ curl https://localhost:9000/health
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{"status":"ok"}
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```
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And we are able to run web services configured with TLS (and mTLS):
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```sh
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~ $ step ca certificate localhost localhost.crt localhost.key
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✔ Key ID: aTPGWP0qbuQdflR5VxtNouDIOXyNMH1H9KAZKP-UcHo (admin)
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✔ Please enter the password to decrypt the provisioner key:
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✔ CA: https://localhost:9000/1.0/sign
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✔ Certificate: localhost.crt
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✔ Private Key: localhost.key
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~ $ step ca root root_ca.crt
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The root certificate has been saved in root_ca.crt.
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~ $ python <<EOF
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import BaseHTTPServer, ssl
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class H(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
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def do_GET(self):
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self.send_response(200); self.send_header('content-type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8'); self.end_headers()
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self.wfile.write(b'\n\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b Hello! Welcome to TLS \xf0\x9f\x94\x92\xe2\x9c\x85\n\n')
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httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 8443), H)
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httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, server_side=True, keyfile="localhost.key", certfile="localhost.crt", ca_certs="root_ca.crt")
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httpd.serve_forever()
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EOF
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```
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Test from another terminal:
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```sh
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$ curl https://localhost:8443
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👋 Hello! Welcome to TLS 🔒✅
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```
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Or visit `https://localhost:8443` from your browser.
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