GRID-MANAGER(1)

💖 GRID-MANAGER(1) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because we're talking about grid-manager — a Tahoe Grid Manager for handing out certificates to storage-servers, and honestly? she's iconic. this is a User Commands girlie, so let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

grid-manager — a Tahoe Grid Manager for issuing certificates to storage-servers. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

grid-manager [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: a Tahoe Grid Manager issues certificates to storage-servers. that's her whole job and she does it beautifully. 💅

and here's why it matters: a Tahoe client that has one or more Grid Manager public keys configured will only upload to a Storage Server that presents a valid certificate signed by one of those configured Grid Manager keys. no valid cert? no uploads. it's giving exclusive. main character energy only. ✨

Grid Manager configuration can live in a local directory, or you can pass it in via stdin. either way, lowkey important:

⚠️ the configuration contains long-term secret information — a private signing key — and it should be kept safe. like, keep it safe safe. protect it with your life. this is not a drill. 🔐😭

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c, --config PATH — the configuration directory (or - for stdin). Required. yes, required required. you can't skip her, she's the moment. 🫶
• --help — show the help message and exit. the classic. the icon. when in doubt, ask for help. 🌈

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👑 COMMANDS 👑

here's the whole squad, bestie — pick your fighter:

• add — add a new storage-server by name to a Grid Manager. welcome to the family 🥳
• create — make a new Grid Manager. birth of a legend ✨
• list — list all storage-servers known to a Grid Manager. the roll call 📋
• public-identity — show the public identity key of a Grid Manager. her public-facing selfie, basically 📸
• remove — remove an existing storage-server by name from a Grid Manager. it's not you, it's the config 💀
• sign — sign a new certificate. the seal of approval 🖋️✨

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Grid Manager has been written by meejah. 👑

Tahoe-LAFS has been written by Brian Warner, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, and numerous other contributors. legends only, fr fr. 🫶

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🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? not me gasping. please go tell the grown-ups here:

• https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/HowToReportABug

and for general lurking:

• Tahoe-LAFS home page: https://tahoe-lafs.org/
• Tahoe-LAFS development mailing list: https://lists.tahoe-lafs.org/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2006–2025 The Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• tahoe(1) — yes bestie, go read that one too 💜
• The Tahoe-LAFS documentation on Grid Managers has more detail than this manual page: https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/managed-grid.html
• and it includes a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a managed grid: https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/managed-grid.html#example-setup-of-a-new-managed-grid — go get your grid set up, you got this 🧚

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was Tahoe-LAFS, from March 2025, and honestly? she ate. periodt. 🎀✨🦋