docker-minecraft

A nice and easy way to get a Minecraft server up and running using docker. For help on getting started with docker see the official getting started guide. For more information on Minecraft and check out it's website.

Quickstart

To quickly get your container up and running execute on of the following commands

To run minecraft without volume mount, run:

docker run -d --name=mc -p 25565:25565 rlenferink/minecraft /start

To run minecraft with volume mount, run:

docker run -d --name=mc -p 25565:25565 -v /mnt/minecraft:/data rlenferink/minecraft /start

Running minecraft with volume mount is to save your world data.

Running docker-minecraft

Running the first time will set your port to a static port of your choice so that you can easily map a proxy to. If this is the only thing running on your system you can map the port to 25565 and no proxy is needed. i.e. -p 25565:25565 . If you want to enable the query protocol you need to add another -p 25565:25565/udp to forward the UDP protocol on the same port as well. Also be sure your mounted directory on your host machine is already created before running mkdir -p /mnt/minecraft.

docker run -d --name=mc -p 25565:25565 -v /mnt/minecraft:/data rlenferink/minecraft /start

From now on when you start/stop docker-minecraft you should use the container id with the following commands. To get your container id, after you initial run type sudo docker ps and it will show up on the left side followed by the image name which is rlenferink/minecraft:latest.

docker start <container_id>
docker stop <container_id>

Building docker-minecraft

Running this will build you a docker image with the latest version of both docker-minecraft and Minecraft itself.

git clone https://github.com/rlenferink/docker-minecraft
cd docker-minecraft
docker build -t rlenferink/minecraft .

Notes on the run command

• -d allows this to run cleanly as a daemon, remove for debugging
• -p is the port it connects to, -p host_port:docker_port
• -v is the volume you are mounting -v host_dir:docker_dir
• rlenferink/minecraft is how this docker image is called