Run Enshrouded dedicated server in a container. Optionally includes helm chart for running in Kubernetes.

Disclaimer: This is not an official image. No support, implied or otherwise is offered to any end user by the author or anyone else. Feel free to do what you please with the contents of this repo.

The processes within the container do NOT run as root. Everything runs as the user steam (gid:10000/uid:10000 by default). If you exec into the container, you will drop into /home/steam as the steam user. Enshrouded will be installed to /home/steam/enshrouded. Any persistent volumes should be mounted to /home/steam/enshrouded/savegame and be owned by 10000:10000.

In all of the examples below the image tag is set to v2.0.5 which is the current latest release. I will update the examples each time I cut a new release. This is to avoid forcing potentially breaking changes if your tag is set to latest and you always pull. Please review my release notes for each version between your current and your target before upgrading.

latest and semantic versioned (vN.N.N) image tags are Wine based images. If you would like to try my Proton (GE-Proton) based image, use the proton-latest tag.

If testing shows that the Proton image is substantially more performant than the Wine image, I may retire the Wine image.

Note: SERVER_IP is ignored if using Helm because that isn't how Kubernetes works.

To run the container in Docker, run the following command:

docker volume create enshrouded-persistent-data
docker run \
  --detach \
  --name enshrouded-server \
  --mount type=volume,source=enshrouded-persistent-data,target=/home/steam/enshrouded/savegame \
  --publish 15636:15636/udp \
  --publish 15637:15637/udp \
  --env=SERVER_NAME='Enshrouded Containerized Server' \
  --env=SERVER_SLOTS=16 \
  --env=SERVER_PASSWORD='ChangeThisPlease' \
  --env=GAME_PORT=15636 \
  --env=QUERY_PORT=15637 \
  sknnr/enshrouded-dedicated-server:v2.0.5

To use Docker Compose, either clone this repo or copy the compose.yaml file out of the container directory to your local machine. Edit the compose file to change the environment variables to the values you desire and then save the changes. Once you have made your changes, from the same directory that contains the compose and the env files, simply run:

docker-compose up -d

To bring the container down:

docker-compose down

compose.yaml file:

services:
  enshrouded:
    image: sknnr/enshrouded-dedicated-server:v2.0.5
    ports:
      - "15636:15636/udp"
      - "15637:15637/udp"
    environment:
      - SERVER_NAME=Enshrouded Containerized
      - SERVER_PASSWORD=PleaseChangeMe
      - GAME_PORT=15636
      - QUERY_PORT=15637
      - SERVER_SLOTS=16
      - SERVER_IP=0.0.0.0
    volumes:
      - enshrouded-persistent-data:/home/steam/enshrouded/savegame

volumes:
  enshrouded-persistent-data:

To run the container in Podman, run the following command:

podman volume create enshrouded-persistent-data
podman run \
  --detach \
  --name enshrouded-server \
  --mount type=volume,source=enshrouded-persistent-data,target=/home/steam/enshrouded/savegame \
  --publish 15636:15636/udp \
  --publish 15637:15637/udp \
  --env=SERVER_NAME='Enshrouded Containerized Server' \
  --env=SERVER_SLOTS=16 \
  --env=SERVER_PASSWORD='ChangeThisPlease' \
  --env=GAME_PORT=15636 \
  --env=QUERY_PORT=15637 \
  docker.io/sknnr/enshrouded-dedicated-server:v2.0.5

I've built a Helm chart and have included it in the helm directory within this repo. Modify the values.yaml file to your liking and install the chart into your cluster. Be sure to create and specify a namespace as I did not include a template for provisioning a namespace.

If you are having issues connecting to the server once the container is deployed, I promise the issue is not with this image. You need to make sure that the ports 15636 and 15637 (or whichever ones you decide to use) are open on your router as well as the container host where this container image is running. You will also have to port-forward the game-port and query-port from your router to the private IP address of the container host where this image is running. After this has been done correctly and you are still experiencing issues, your internet service provider (ISP) may be blocking the ports and you should contact them to troubleshoot.

For additional help, refer to this closed issue where some folks were able to debug their issues. It may be of help.
jsknnr#16

I recommend having Docker or Podman manage the volume that gets mounted into the container. However, if you absolutely must bind mount a directory into the container you need to make sure that on your container host the directory you are bind mounting is owned by 10000:10000 by default (chown -R 10000:10000 /path/to/directory). If the ownership of the directory is not correct the container will not start as the server will be unable to persist the savegame.