Required Specifications

RAM

2GB or more

Processor Clock

2ghz or more

Storage

40GB+ recommended ( 35 GB minimum )

How To Use Docker for Gaming Servers with SteamCMD?

Pre-requisite: Docker

Docker is an open-source software that is used to containerize applications. Containerization makes the deployment of applications easy. Today we will deploy a SteamCMD game server using docker. Deploying game servers using docker will make it easy to deploy our game servers on a new server which may be present anywhere around the world.

Here, we will use a droplet rented from the digital ocean for hosting our SteamCMD game server. Using a cloud provider for hosting purposes is relatively easier and cheaper than hosting anything on your own PC. Hence, you are recommended to use a cloud provider for hosting this game server. These are the recommended specifications for hosting a CS: GO game server (this may vary from game to game):

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Features Of The SteamCMD Docker Container

The Docker container in this particular article, that we created was by using a Dockerfile. The Docker container can grow up to a limit of a maximum of 10 GB and not more than that. Hence, it is really important to set up a secondary volume for the game files separately, as we did in this tutorial. It is better not to increase the default size limit of a container as this will create larger-sized images that will be really difficult to manage. Other than that, the image will take a lot of network bandwidth each time you shift it to a new server. However, if you still want to increase the default size of each docker image you make, you can follow the steps at the end of this article. We set/home steam cmdsteamcmd directory and inside it, the SteamCMD files will be downloaded. The entrypoint.sh will download and configure SteamCMD as well as start our game server. debconf-set-selections was used to set values for the steamCMD user agreement. The installed steamcmd binary was symlinked to /usr/bin so that it could be executed and is available systemwide....

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