#Xonotic server install#
The installation we have just done isn’t suited for production, as the official install instructions recommend running Agones and the game servers in separate, dedicated pools of nodes. helm repo add agones Īnd then installing the stable Agones chart: helm install -name my-agones -namespace agones-system agones/agones Now let’s continue by adding Agones repository to Helm’s repository list.
Now we have the Cluster Role Binding needed for the installation. clusterrole=cluster-admin -serviceaccount=kube-system:default kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \ The first step to install Agones is to setup a service account with enough permissions to create some special RBAC resource types. For our test we chose the easiest one: installing with Helm. There are several ways to install Agones in a Kubernetes cluster. Deploying Agones on OVH Managed Kubernetes
#Xonotic server full#
Using Kubernetes for these tasks also gives some nice additional bonus, like being able to deploy the full gaming infrastructure in a developer environnement (or even in a minikube), or easily clone it to deploy in a new data center or cloud region, but also offering a whole platform to host all the additional services needed to build a game: account management, leaderboards, inventory…Īnd of course, the simplicity of operating Kubernetes-based platforms, especially when they dynamic, heterogeneous and distributed, as most online gaming platforms.
And how do you connect the players to the right server?Įvery game publisher used to have their own proprietary solutions, but most on them follow a similar flow, with a matchmaking service that groups players into a match, deals with a cluster manager to provision a dedicated instance of game server and send to the players its IP address and port, to allow them to directly connect to the server and play the game. That means that the connection from the player device to the game server should be the most direct possible, ideally bypassing any intermediate server such as a load-balancer. Latency is a key concern, as the competitive real-time aspects of the games ask for quick responses from the server. The servers need to be stateful (they must keep the game status), with the state usually held in memory for the duration of the match. These kinds of games ask for relatively ephemeral dedicated gaming servers, with every match running on a server instance. Well, Agones’s main focus is online multiplayer games such as FPSs and MOBAs, fast-paced games requiring dedicated, low-latency game servers that synchronize the state of the game between players and serve as a source of truth for gaming situations. Wait, what game servers are you talking about? With them, you can standardise Kubernetes tooling and APIs to create, scale and manage game server clusters. And of course, we needed to write about it to share the experience… Why Agones?Īgones ( derived from the Greek word agōn, contests held during public festivals or more generally “contest” or “competition at games”) aims to replace the usual proprietary solutions to deploy, scale and manage game servers.Īgones enriches Kubernetes with a Custom Controller and a Custom Resource Definition.
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