📄️ Overview and Quickstart
Portside is Rancero's local database launcher - one-click MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, Redis, and Valkey containers from a Tauri desktop app, with TLS LAN sharing built for agentic coding.
📄️ Engines and Instances
The Portside engine catalog, per-instance creation flow, ports and passwords, and running multiple engine versions side by side.
📄️ Networking and TLS
How Portside exposes instances across your LAN with per-instance self-signed TLS, and what Copy LAN gives you.
📄️ Data and Lifecycle
Where Portside stores metadata and data, and the precise contract of inactivate, remove, and wipe.
📄️ Backups
Scheduled and on-demand backups of managed instances to R2, S3-compatible storage, local folders, Google Drive, and Dropbox — with restore-to-new-instance.
📄️ Headless CLI
Drive Portside without the desktop app - the portside-cli binary, every command, JSON output for agents and scripts, and CI recipes.
📄️ Agents and MCP
Let coding agents stand up their own databases - one-command harness setup for opencode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, pi, and omp, plus the MCP tool reference.