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Orchestrator

The Orc (orchestrator) module is the heart of the project.

It is what manages the process of game server deployment for users.

Design Objectives

  • Extremely lightweight.
  • REST API managed
  • Deploy/control game containers.
  • Abstracted from the game server/container platform to allow stack evolution.

Software Stack Diagram

*This may change as technologies & skills evolve.

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Features

  • [x] User file backups
  • [x] Update to new deployment architecture.
  • [x] RESTapi (v1) - Plan/recipies
  • [x] Security - api-key integration
  • [x] Start/Stop scheduler
  • [x] RESTapi (v1) - custom configurations
  • [x] Server deployment (v2) - custom configurations
  • [x] Persistent server data - Keep server data for updates & future releases.
  • [x] RESTapi (v1)
  • [x] Server deployment (v1)

Roadmap

Here are some planned features

  • [ ] Security - Add fail2ban to REST API
  • [ ] Security - Users & Audit Logging
  • [ ] RESTapi (v1) - Console

Release Notes

1.3.0 - DEVELOPMENT

:zap: IMPACT RELEASE :zap:

  • [ ] ADDED :new: API - Modify to allow editing the existing server's settings.

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Update flag reinit/full/image/server. Setting the flag to server update will just update the game server, setting image update will update the container, full will update the image and server and reinit will delete the server data (not user data) and then run a full

  • [x] ADDED :new: Check for consumed ports in start response (import docker compose config as yaml and check docker ps output)
  • [x] ADDED :new: Get container build/version info using docker exec, instead of as part of container deploy
  • [x] ADDED :new: Scheduler auto cleans missing/completed tasks
  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Get current orchestrator version
  • [x] CHANGED :tools: The getall servers is now gameuid,servername sorted by default
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Fixed an issue to the server import function, where it would try start a server with a non-existant docker-compose.yml file
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Enforced project specific docker-compose commands to avoid conflicting networks/configs
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Fixed an issue where a scheduled stop would not respond correctly.

1.2.11

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Updated to latest OS/package combinations.

1.2.10

  • [x] ADDED :new: Ability to import any game servers

1.2.9

  • [x] ADDED :new: Added backup save to /home/peon/backup
  • [x] ADDED :new: Ability to download user and config data for a game server (via /home/peon/backup).

1.2.8

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Enforced UID 1000 on all folders in the server directory (on create and on docker-compose action)

1.2.7

  • [x] ADDED :new: Ability to update the game server using the API.

1.2.6

  • [X] LOGGING :speech_balloon: Improve logging response to handle bad JSON/missing files on plan load.

1.2.5

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Repaired an issue with a plan not seeing a description

1.2.4

  • [x] CHANGED :tools: Updated how the cli tool references files inside the container

1.2.3

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Make better alert when the folder already exists, not action not supported

1.2.2

  • [x] ADDED :new: Ability to make custom REST API key through env vars.

1.2.1

  • [x] ADDED :new: Added skip flag to Server PUT to force bypass of actions (if required)
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Added return on successful create when not start is requested.

1.2.0

:zap: IMPACT RELEASE :zap:

  • [x] CHANGED :tools: Changed URL path from /api/1.0 to /api/v1
  • [x] CHANGED :tools: Added sort to get_plans

1.1.0

:zap: IMPACT RELEASE :zap:

  • [x] CHANGED :tools: Moved logging into container logs
  • [x] ADDED :new: Added DEV_MODE flag to enable/disable logging/dev mode.

1.0.5

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Fixed API destroy + eradicate of a server.

1.0.4

  • [x] ADDED :beetle: Check if the environment variable HOST_DIR is empty.
  • [x] ADDED :new: Added a clean on failure when a server creation is triggered.
  • [x] ADDED :new: Added an API flag noclean to disable clean on failure.
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Fixed issue where failures on docker compose commands did not get handled by API correctly.
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Fixed an issue where generic failure was being reported back via API when plans were being generated.
  • [x] LOGGING :speech_balloon: Added additional step logging for debug logging to assist in fault finding.

1.0.3

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Updated API for use with Discord bot.

1.0.2

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Re-enabled stop scheduler.
  • [x] REMOVED :scissors: Disabled flask debug mode (as it causes issues with the scheduler)

1.0.1

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Removed docker-compose create from API when no start is selected.
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Updated to docker compose from docker-compose paradigm

:zap: IMPACT RELEASE :zap:

1.0.0

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Plans - Reworked entire plans module for docker-compose architecture
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Servers - Reworked entire servers module for docker-compose architecture
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: API - Updated API for docker-compose architecture.
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: All - fixed several issues after rework
  • [x] ADDED :new: warcamp - cleanup
  • [x] ADDED :new: get_warcamp - check container state and update state accordingly.
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: CURRENT_TASK API - Deploy server from API call. (Untested server create function)
  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Plan - Get required settings
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Change to SVN download for directory (plans)
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Moved to docker compose based model for better re-usability/clarity.
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: API - Removed servers/server marshall flow for more versatile response handling
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: API - Plans - Fixed the get and update from server plans

0.3.2

  • [x] ADDED :new: Added /app/bin to the path and added peon cli module into orc.
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Make API key configurable

0.3.1

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Rework Orchestrator app to leverage the docker.sock
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Moving to init script init/peon.orc, for pre-flight checks.
  • [x] REMOVED :scissors: Removed SSH check on boot from python3 main.py
  • [x] ADDED :new: Configurable docker socket path.
  • [x] ADDED :new: Added VERSION environment variable into the container.

0.3.0

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Change the docker file to support using docker.sock socket file to manage docker (from SSH)

0.2.17

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Remove schedule on manual stop
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Validate epoch time input for scheduler epoch time

0.2.16

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Server create returned false error due to change error dict handler

0.2.15

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Scheduler vs Start/Stop

0.2.14

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Scheduler v1.0 - Bugfix (server stop is now properly scheduled)

0.2.13

  • [x] ADDED :new: Scheduler - v1.0 - Added simple start & delayed stop in scheduler

0.2.12

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: API Response - Server config

0.2.11

  • [x] ADDED :new: PUBLIC_IP - added to container variables

0.2.10

  • [x] Logging - Added devMode switch

0.2.9

  • [x] ADDED :new: UI - Added MOTD to container login

0.2.8

  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Base images were pulled to get the latest versions & app was rebuilt on those
  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Incorrect parameter reference in server create

0.2.7

  • [x] SECURITY :unlock: Inital CORS implementation
  • [x] SECURITY :unlock: Initial api-key requirement implementation

0.2.6

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Server - Destroy & Eradicate

0.2.5

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Server - Reworked to include actions into the path
  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Server - Added get with metrics

0.2.4

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Server Get - reworked to provide both container & server state

0.2.3

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Auto download latest plan version when the server is deployed

0.2.2

  • [x] ADDED :new: API - Plans get list & update from Peon project list

0.2.1

  • [x] BUGFIX :beetle: Enforced description & settings on [post]servers

0.2.0

  • [x] ADDED :new: Added custom config handler
  • [x] CHANGE :tools: Allows configuration of environment variables in the container (via API)
  • [x] ADDED :new: Can supply json/txt files via API
  • [x] ADDED :new: Added persistent description

0.1.6

  • [x] ADDED :new: Added handler for config folder
  • [x] ADDED :new: Moved game server logs into the game server directory

0.1.5

  • [x] INITIALISED :airplane: The first iteration of server create (API)