Adding Your First Server

Before adding a server, it helps to understand how rdc works. Rediacc has a two-tool architecture: rdc on your laptop, renet on the server.

Watch the tutorial

Why two tools?

• rdc is the CLI on your laptop. You type commands here.
• renet is the orchestrator on the server. It manages encryption, Docker, and isolation.

When you run a command locally, rdc connects over SSH and executes renet on the server. You never SSH into your servers manually. rdc does it for you.

Step 1: Register the server

Tell rdc about the server. Replace the name, IP, and user with your own.

time rdc config machine add --name my-server --ip 192.168.1.100 --user deploy

Step 2: Provision it

Setup installs renet and creates the encrypted datastore on the server.

time rdc config machine setup --name my-server

When it completes, your server is ready to host repositories.

Where the config lives

Verify what rdc knows about your setup:

time rdc config show

Or open the raw JSON file directly:

vim ~/.config/rediacc/rediacc.json

This single file holds everything: machines, repos, SSH key, encryption credentials. Copy it to another laptop and you’re ready to go from that machine too.

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Next: Creating Your First Repository.