error storing nonce: not implemented

[strarsis]

Subject of the issue

When a new certificate signing is requested (Traefik), signing fails and smallstep logs an error:

error storing nonce: not implemented

Your environment

• OS: WSL (Bash on Windows) 1 (stable); Windows 10 Pro x64
• Version: 0.14.0-rc.2

Steps to reproduce

Disable storage (remove db key) because go-based libraries like badger and boltDB libraries don't run correctly on WSL.
Configure Traefik to sign certs using smallstep CA as ACME server.

Expected behaviour

Certificate signing over ACME works.

Actual behaviour

Error mesage, certificate signing over ACME fails.

Additional context

#156 (comment)

[dopey]

I would say this is a known bug - but unfortunately, probably not one that we're going to fix. The way we've written the code, we need a DB to do ACME.

There are a few workarounds for this:

1. Fork [https://github.com/smallstep/nosql] and change the Badger dependency to v2.x. Then change all mentions of nosql in this repo to point to your fork. And finally rebuild this repo. I'm happy to create a branch that would do exactly this, if this workaround will work for you. We can even make a release so you can download a deb from the github releases - let me know.

2. Use another database that is supported (e.g. mysql) or write your own implementation for a database that we don't support yet (we'd love a PR if you end up going this route).

Looking forwards, we plan to support Badger 2 which should solve this problem. See this issue for more info.

[dopey]

@strarsis I'm going to close this issue for the time being but please re-open it if you feel that I'm missing something.

Also, let me know about the bespoke release. If it will get you unblocked then we're happy to do it.

[dopey]

Here is a release of step-ca built using badger2 which should solve this problem → https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc.4.badger2