Nice! Glad to know other people have done it before. Not gonna complain about a docker refresher though.

Haha, didn't know about this lol. Googling gave me links to images that didn't have sourcemod / the other plugins.

I ran a small 6s server with 1 gig and crashed it a lot bc out of memory, so I said screw it and went with 4 as my credits were going to expire anyway. Didn't try 2, guess that's a better line.

Hi all. Couple of days ago I sat down and put together a Docker image for hosting tf2 servers. It has sourcemod, metamod, mge, soap, and RGL plugins / maps. ETF2L support would be nice (pull request maybe?)

A lot of people pay for dedicated servers where they set up everything for you using actual money. However big digital VPS providers like Amazon Web Services or DigitalOcean give out their credits like candy.

The github repo is: https://github.com/joshdabosh/tf2-docker-comp
The Docker Hub page is: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/joshdabosh/tf2-docker-comp

Instructions for setup are in the readme.

The hope is that people who aren't as experienced with Linux or want minimal contact with tf2 server administration can spin up a VPS, edit firewall, install docker / docker-compose, and be on their way for server hosting.

I find tf2 servers need at least 4 gigs ram, not sure about # of cpus as I've always used 2 vcpus. Runs fine on a t2.medium from aws ec2.