docker-arma3-exile

Requirements

Windows Users

• install docker toolbox: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox

• install it with all the features.

  • windows 10 users, make sure the ndis option is unticked.

• launch the docker command line

Linux Users

• install docker-engine with this guide:
  • https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/
• install docker-compose with this guide:
  • https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Usage

1. Grab this repo

    $ git clone this repo; cd to this repo;

2. Create a credentials file in ./server/ containing your steam login

3. Customise the config files:

   $ nano|vi|subl|gedit|notepad ./docker-compose.yml

4. build and run the images:

    $ docker-compose up

Upgrading

see [#infrastructre] for info about how this project works

• Check and ensure both EXILE_SERVER_URL and EXILE_CLIENT_URL are valid
• change version numbers and/or urls
• docker-compose rm server && docker-compose build server && docker-compose up server

Infrastructre

uses docker to automate the creation of required infrastructure and software for an Arma3 Exile Server.

• Server Container:

  • the game server process.
  • linked to the database container.
  • ephemeral, destroy this at will.

• Database Container

  • database server process.
  • mounts volumes exposed by database data container.
  • ephemeral, destroy this at will.

• Store Data Container

  • Provides exile game files
  • Provides exile mysql db schema and migrations
  • leave this running, use backup strategies outlined below.