Tutorials

• Deploy a VPS with your coding agent: the RareCloud MCP setup

  Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to RareCloud in two minutes. What the MCP server can do, how agents place real deploys through scoped tokens, and the safety model behind it.

  7 min read · 6/11/2026 · mcp, ai-agents, claude

• Provision a RareCloud VPS with Terraform

  Use the official rarecloudio/rarecloud Terraform provider to declare your VPS infrastructure as code: SSH keys, servers, a load balancer. Plan, apply, destroy, the same workflow you know from AWS or Hetzner.

  9 min read · 5/20/2026 · terraform, iac, devops

• SSH key management for VPS: generate, distribute, rotate

  Generate an Ed25519 key, add it to your VPS at provision time or after, manage multiple keys for team access, set up agent forwarding, and rotate a compromised key without losing access.

  7 min read · 5/20/2026 · ssh, security, ed25519

• Set up automatic HTTPS with Caddy on a VPS

  Caddy gives you free, auto-renewing TLS certificates with zero config. This walkthrough installs Caddy on a fresh VPS, reverse-proxies a Node app on port 3000, and gets a green padlock in under five minutes.

  6 min read · 5/20/2026 · tls, https, caddy

• How to deploy n8n on a VPS in 10 minutes

  Step-by-step setup of n8n with TLS, persistent storage, and a backup hook on a RareCloud KVM VPS. Built around Docker Compose.

  10 min read · 5/20/2026 · n8n, automation, self-hosted

• Automate your VPS workflow with the RareCloud CLI

  Install the rarecloud CLI, authenticate with an API token, and script common operations: create servers, snapshot before deploy, rotate IPs, tail logs. Replaces the dashboard for repetitive work.

  8 min read · 5/20/2026 · cli, automation, devops