Steps To Installation SteamCMD On Linux

SteamCMD can be installed on Linux in the following ways:

Step 1: By using package managers

SteamCMD can be installed by using the package manager of your Linux distribution if it’s available in the official repositories of your Linux distro. Here is how you can do this on RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu/Debian:

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install steamcmd

RedHat/CentOS:

yum install steamcmd

Step 2: Manually download and execute it from a script file

To manually download and execute steamCMD on your Linux distro, you can execute the following command

Command:

mkdir steamcmd && cd steamcmd
curl -sqL "https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz" | tar zxvf -

This will create a steamcmd directory and download the steamcmd shell script inside it. You can then execute that shell script like – ./steamcmd.sh

You can learn more about Steam cmd from here – https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

Steps To Installation Of SteamCMD On Windows

Step 1. You can download SteamCMD on Windows by this link – https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd.zip

Step 2. You can execute steamcmd.exe using Windows Command Prompt like –

./steamcmd.exe

Conclusion

So this was how to install any game server using SteamCMD Dockerimage. As we know that Docker is an open-source platform used for containerization. Hence, regardless of whichever OS you are using, you can simply install Docker and follow this tutorial to install your favorite game server using Docker and SteamCMD. This means you can follow the above tutorial for Windows, Linux as well as macOS and host a SteamCMD game server on a Windows machine as well as a MacBook, without downloading binaries/executables for Windows/macOS.

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):