This repo contains a Docker setup for automatically downloading, updating, and running a TF2 server.

Start by running touch server.env. You can leave this file blank for now.

Run ./tf2.sh to download and start the server. Once the download has completed, you should see the message >> Starting server. If you're running this on your local machine you should also see the server appear under the LAN tab of the server browser.

The server volume is mounted to data/. You'll probably want data/tf/ which has things like cfg, maps, etc.

./tf2.sh daemon
./tf2.sh console

# Or
./tf2.sh d
./tf2.sh c

This starts the server in daemon-mode and then attaches to the process in the container. Once attached you can type in console commands, such as sm version if you have SourceMod installed.

NOTE: Because you are attaching directly to the server process, if you press CTRL-C it will exit the server. To detach, press CTRL-A, D.

You can customize the server startup options with a server.env file. These are command line options used by SRCDS. For a full list of possible options see the wiki page.

• SERVER_TOKEN
  • A login token for your server, required by Steam. Get a login token here.
• IP
  • The IP to bind the server to. Leave this blank unless you know what you're doing. (default: 0.0.0.0)
• PORT
  • The port to bind the server to. (default: 27015)
• START_MAP
  • The map to load when the server starts. (default: ctf_2fort)
• MAX_PLAYERS
  • The maximum number of players for the server. (default: 16, max is 32)
• VAC
  • Enable/disable Valve Anti-Cheat. (default: 1, use 0 for insecure)
• DEBUG
  • Enable/disable debugging. (default: 0, use 1 to enable)
• EXTRA
  • Any extra command line options. These are appended to the end of the options before starting the server.

• The server crashes on startup and says to enable debugging for more info
  • Open docker/Dockerfile and uncomment the debug section
  • Add DEBUG=1 to server.env
  • Run ./tf2.sh
  • Once you've solved the issue you can re-comment the debug section in the Dockerfile
• "There is no screen to be attached matching tf2." error when running ./tf2.sh console
  • This usually means you pressed CTRL-C while attached in a previous console session and killed the server.
  • Run ./tf2.sh restart