Running & scaling dedicated game servers with Docker + Kubernetes

A tutorial on running & scaling dedicated game servers with Docker + Kubernetes

Containerizing a game

Docker is the atomic unit for isolating all the requirements for running a dedicated game server. Docker will also help with rapiding setting up (scaling) game servers once we hit a limit on the number of users (or other relevant metric).

(Optional) Creating a persistent disk with assets

Setting up a Kubernetes cluster

Setting up the scaling critera

Deploying a test game

Cleaning up the setup