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0 pointsmmanciop10mo ago0 comments

> Telemetry does not address this, though. Shoving it into a container and assigning it a simple “restart if down” rule does.

A Systemd unit as shown in [1] does it too without using containers and with fewer moving parts of using containers. I use containers every day at $work. I have been using containers since before Docker was a thing. In this case, it's entirely overkill: Systemd units use the important things like cgroups already.

For the upgrade: depends. You do need a container image regardless, and I have not seen official ones. Upgrading servers in Minecraft requires upgrading clients to match, and my kids prefer to play, more than upgrade. (Unless a biome is released. Then it must be immediately available to them.) But then again, I just need to download the binary with a cURL call. And if the configurations change, Docker won't help me there one bit anyhow.

[1] https://github.com/dash0hq/minecraft-server/blob/main/drople...

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strogonoff10mo ago

There are no official ones (Microsoft profits from operating its own servers, why would it make things any easier), but there are community-maintained images.

I found that vanilla server is insufficient and an ability to declaratively define mods, the seed, OP players, etc. through container environment is very important for iterative evolution, but of course this is individual.

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0 pointsmmanciop10mo ago0 comments

> Telemetry does not address this, though. Shoving it into a container and assigning it a simple “restart if down” rule does.

[1] https://github.com/dash0hq/minecraft-server/blob/main/drople...

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strogonoff10mo ago

There are no official ones (Microsoft profits from operating its own servers, why would it make things any easier), but there are community-maintained images.

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