so I was thinking of being able to use Containers as a backend for our game servers, so let's say ou

so I was thinking of being able to use Containers as a backend for our game servers, so let's say our matchmaking code that runs on workers or DO, we wanna spawn a gameserver that remains as long as the session is active or there's players in it, is that possible?

MMinori so I was thinking of being able to use Containers as a backend for our game serv...

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:04 AM

it is possible to an extent

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:04 AM

as far as i know, the containers dont expose ports and arent really accessible publicly

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:04 AM

however, there are ways around it such as using playit.gg or an ssh tunnel to a machine/instance that is able to expose the ports etc

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:05 AM

i have run a minecraft server with containers and it works

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:05 AM

disk is ephemeral, so youll have to backup/restore game server data/files

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:06 AM

https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

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MinoriOP•11/1/25, 10:06 AM

We really don't mind the ephemeral nature of Containers as these instances are meant to elastically spin up and down so their player progress is stored elsewhere

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:07 AM

the only thing is just exposing your game server

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:07 AM

playit.gg or an ssh tunnel are 2 of the options

MinoriOP•11/1/25, 10:07 AM

Gotcha thanks

<<@235148962103951360>https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:08 AM

have a look at this it should give u an idea of how you could do it

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:08 AM

the only issue is the instance specs

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:09 AM

you need an enterprise plan to customise them i believe, or ur stuck with the default presets which arent exactly ideal for game servers e.g. 1/2 vcpu and 4gb ram for minecraft for example isnt great. the ram is ok for a small survival sever but 1/2 cpus is too weak

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:09 AM

i tried with 1/2 cpu/4gb and loading chunks took a while

MinoriOP•11/1/25, 10:09 AM

I really wish they have better instances icl

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:09 AM

and the server was constantly behind

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

there are higher ones

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

but the specs arent suited for minecaft at least. maybe its ok for some other games

MinoriOP•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

We do have the option of integrating Steam's Networking Relay if we can't expose the gameserver ports directly

MinoriOP•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

I have to check how much Unreal's dedicated servers eat and go from there

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

do you plan to make your own game

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

that could work yeah

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:10 AM

these are the available instance types

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:11 AM

i believe enterprise can customise it

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:11 AM

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 10:11 AM

@Minori also keep in mind this

Anon•11/1/25, 3:59 PM

Do containers retain the process's memory or flush them constantly?

AAnon Do containers retain the process's memory or flush them constantly?

Isaac McFadyen•11/1/25, 4:01 PM

They retain it for the lifetime of the container.

Isaac McFadyen•11/1/25, 4:02 PM

When the container is shut down the memory goes with it though, the same as you'd have on e.g. Docker

IIsaac McFadyen They retain it for the lifetime of the container.

Anon•11/1/25, 4:05 PM

I have some caching logic in my app, an I configure it(the container) so it stays up for 24hrs before restarting? And does that impact my bill drastically?

Anon•11/1/25, 4:05 PM

I have hard limits so the ~~program's~~ cache's memory usage doesn't exceed 2GB

AAnon I have some caching logic in my app, an I configure it(the container) so it stay...

Isaac McFadyen•11/1/25, 4:08 PM

You will be billed for the entire 24h, so yes it would impact your bill fairly heavily.

IIsaac McFadyen You will be billed for the entire 24h, so yes it would impact your bill fairly h...

Anon•11/1/25, 4:10 PM

Thanks for taking the time to answer me <3

JJulian Is possible to subscribe to the beta? when i try to deploy the containers-templa...

<@235148962103951360>•11/1/25, 6:10 PM

i beleive you need to be on the workers paid plan

Dubz•11/1/25, 6:15 PM

Curious how much something like vaultwarden would cost to run on here with a few users and devices phoning home (basically it never sleeping)

<@235148962103951360>•11/2/25, 1:42 AM

i believe the only ways is via fetch requests and websockets to directly communicate with it

xvvvyz•11/2/25, 3:22 AM

hello, can we hide these logs when starting a container?

Error checking if container is ready: The operation was abortedError checking if container is ready: The operation was aborted

J1mb0•11/3/25, 11:37 AM

Hi, I've got some issues when starting my Go service. I always get this error message:
Failed to start container: The container is not running, consider calling start()Failed to start container: The container is not running, consider calling start()

And I can't find anything regarding this in the logs. Does someone has an idea how to resolve this? My current Dockerfile is working locally and in my k8s cluster, so I think it should be related to cloudflare containers

Yaopeng Liu•11/4/25, 2:49 AM

Will container instances containing GPUs be released?

YYaopeng Liu Will container instances containing GPUs be released?

1984 Ford Laser•11/4/25, 3:39 AM

Nothing has been publicly announced, but I and many others have asked for this quite a bit. Lets hope it comes soon!

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Brett Willis•11/4/25, 3:44 AM

Is there a way to authenticate Docker to the Cloudflare image registry so that we can use docker to push directly rather than via wrangler, for usage with terraform for example?

11984 Ford Laser Nothing has been publicly announced, but I and many others have asked for this q...

Yaopeng Liu•11/4/25, 4:12 AM

I really need this

tao•11/4/25, 6:39 AM

We’re trying to trigger the deployment via Git repo.but it returns an error

js•11/4/25, 9:19 AM

when using startAndWaitForPorts, does 10000 requests to an unstarted container wait for the one issued start given the container has one name?

Nick•11/4/25, 2:19 PM

Does anyone know if there's a limit to subrequests insidea container?

NNick Does anyone know if there's a limit to subrequests insidea container?

Isaac McFadyen•11/4/25, 3:28 PM

There shouldn't be from the container itself (the attached DO is subject to the limit still).

Isaac McFadyen•11/4/25, 3:28 PM

A container has it's own networking and doesn't rely on the Workers HTTP stack so you can effectively do whatever you want (within reason)

so I was thinking of being able to use Containers as a backend for our game servers, so let's say ou

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