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Basically we support launching VM on multiple cloud providers (mainly thanks to jclouds), then we provision a game server via docker container on a vanilla ubun
by gionn 11y ago
Basically we support launching VM on multiple cloud providers (mainly thanks to jclouds), then we provision a game server via docker container on a vanilla ubuntu 14.04, finally the user can get the IP address of the VM and play.
Game servers are launched with pre-defined configurations, but the user can override the command line flags of the game server and restart it, directly from the control panel.
With this platform, we would also love to help multiplayer indie developers to host and sell their shiny new game server to users.
If there are HN gamers reading this, feel free to suggest any game that you think it should be available.
- joshmn 11y agoSounds nice in practice. Do any of the major providers (GameServers.com, Hypernia, MultiPlay) use containers for their services? I ask because, if this is something worth doing, why they haven't done it yet (if they haven't)
- gionn 11y agoI don't think, since they existed for years, they are probably stuck with pre-built images to spin-up. However, being a sysadmin, I've never been a customer of such services. The idea came while looking for interesting docker applications published on docker hub, and we saw that a lot of people was published game server images.