Rustdesk¶

Rustdesk is an open source remote desktop software that allows us to self-host the an ID and relay server to act as a middleman to connect two computers remotely.

There is an official image for this service that we'll use: rustdesk/rustdesk-server.

Pre-Installation¶

We'll create a folder in the main user's home where all the service's data will be saved.

mkdir ~/services/management/rustdesk

Docker Compose¶

Rustdesk will be run using Docker Compose. The content of the docker-compose.yml file is as follows:

services:
  server:
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: hbbs
    ports:
      - 21115:21115
      - 21116:21116
      - 21116:21116/udp
      - 21118:21118
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    environment:
      TZ: America/Guayaquil

  relay:
    image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: hbbr
    ports:
      - 21117:21117
      - 21119:21119
    volumes:
      - ./data:/root
    environment:
      TZ: America/Guayaquil

Running¶

Start up the service with:

docker compose up -d

That's it! The service will auto-start on system startup and restart on failure.

Post Installation¶

Inside the data folder you'll find an id_ed25519.pub file. This is your public key. Every client that wants to connect to this ID and relay server must set this value.