This documentation page is a work in progress.

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Overview

This guide will walk you through self-hosting Open Game Backend on a virtual machine.

This is going to run everything on a single vm, suitable for hobby deployments.

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Prerequisites

  • Linux VM with Debian 11
    • You can rent a VM from Linode, Digital Ocean, or AWS
  • Deno
  • Docker
  • Git
This guide works with most Linux distributions, but is not tested. Reach out on Discord if you have questions.

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Upload To Server

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Configure firewall

Open port 80

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Write Dockerfile

# TODO: Need dockerfile for opengb
- from debian
- install opengb (pin version)
- opengb build
- set cmd to `deno run .opengb/entrypoint.ts`

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Write Docker Compose

docker-compose.yaml
# TODO: Not tested
services:
  opengb:
    build: .
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "80:8000"
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@db:5432/
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy

  db-migrate:
    build: .
    entrypoint: ["opengb", "db", "deploy"]
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@db:5432/
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
 
  db:
    image: postgres
    restart: always
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]
      interval: 1s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 10

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Up

docker-compose up -d

docker-compose logs

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Next Steps

  • Set up SSL
  • Secure Postgres database credentials
  • Monitor with docker-compose logs
ConfigEnvironment Variables