Docker image for install, update, backup&restore and run the Minecraft Bedrock server. Some of scripts are forked or inspired from great MinecraftBedrockServer project.

• Project source repository: (https://github.com/tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker)
• In case of any bugs raise a ticket through GitHub (https://github.com/tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker/issues) issues page, please.
• Supported architectures: amd64

To run Bedrock server instance simply run:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

The command above will download (see https://minecraft.net/terms for terms), install, run bedrock_server inside container and expose server on 19132 host port. As for common docker usage, you can run and expose several other instances as long a port per host/ip doesn't collide each others. By example you can:

docker run -d -p 19142:19132/udp --name my_instance_1 tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker
docker run -d -p 19152:19132/udp --name my_instance_2 tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker
docker run -d -p 192.168.1.100:19132:19132/udp --name my_instance_3 tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker
docker run -d -p 192.168.1.101:19132:19132/udp --name my_instance_4 tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

To override some of default server configuration files, map your files as follow:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -v <absolute_host_path_to_yours_one>:/bedrock/server.properties \
  -v <absolute_host_path_to_yours_one>:/bedrock/permissions.json \
  -v <absolute_host_path_to_yours_one>:/bedrock/whitelist.json \
  tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

Consider add restart policy, to start container if it's stops for some reason:

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p 19132:19132/udp tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

You should consider bind two Docker volumes to persists your data in case of need to delete container or update docker image. Just add two additional volume mapping:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -v your-volume-name-worlds:/bedrock/worlds \
  -v your-volume-name-backups:/backups \
  tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

bedrock-in-docker will download and update to latest server release (from https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock) each time when it starts. You can configure bedrock-in-docker to restart bedrock and do the update periodically, by passing restart&update UTC time (default is 03:00 UTC):

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_RESTART_TIME_UTC="02:00"
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or you can disable restarting by set some date in the far future:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_RESTART_TIME_UTC="12/31/2999"
  tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

Each time when stops (or restart) backup will be executed. You can see the backup files by mounting backup folder to host:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -v <absolute_host_path_to_yours_backup_directory>:/backups \
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or (preferred) by attaching to the container bash:

docker exec -it my_instance_1 bash
ls -al /backups

To restore latest.tar.gz start the container with environment variable: BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_FORCE_RESTORE=1, by example:

docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -v your-volume-name-worlds:/bedrock/worlds \
  -v your-volume-name-backups:/backups \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_FORCE_RESTORE=1 \
  tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker

If you need to restore some other backup, just replace /backups/latest.tar.gz with something else.

Before recreating container with new image MAKE SURE that your data is persisted to docker volumes (or mapped to host). Stop the container, pull new image, run new one and delete old one if everything works:

docker stop bedrock_1_v1
docker pull tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker
docker run -d -p 19132:19132/udp \
  --name bedrock_1_v2
... \
  -v bedrock_1-worlds:/bedrock/worlds \
  -v bedrock_1-backups:/backups \
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docker rm bedrock_1_v1

Tag tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker:s3 support storing backup of worlds and config files in s3 bucket. Two additional environment variables was added:

• BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_BACKUP_s3_URI - uri to bucket and prefix to store backup data, by example: s3://<your-bucket>/<your-prefix>
• BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_CONFIG_s3_URI - uri to bucket and prefix to store config files, by example: s3://<your-bucket>/<your-prefix>/config. Only:server.properties, permissions.json, whitelist.json will be stored.

To initialize new container just put your files inside s3://<your-bucket>/<your-prefix>/config and start container:

λ docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name <your-container-name> \
  -p 19132:19132/udp -p 19133:19133/udp \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_BACKUP_s3_URI=s3://<your-bucket>/<your-container-name> \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_CONFIG_s3_URI=s3://<your-bucket>/<your-container-name>/config \
  -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your-key-id> \
  -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your-secret-key> \
  tchorwat/bedrock-in-docker:s3

Hint 1: if your run your container inside AWS infrastructure consider use IAM role instead passing credentials. Hinr 2: Don't forget to set lifecycle rule for your bucket to manage backup retention.

Features:

• Introduce BEDROCK_DOWNLOAD_URL attribute, to allow customize download URL

Bugfixes:

• Add custom User-Agent to all calls for http://www.minecraft.net/ (#2)

This is the initial (alpha) release of bedrock-in-docker.

Features:

• Support of s3 & local path backup was introduced.

Run named instance with mounted docker volumes, that will preserve host restart:

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped \
  --name bedrock_1 \
  -p 19132:19132/udp \
  -p 19133:19133/udp \
  -v $(pwd)/server.properties:/bedrock/server.properties \
  -v $(pwd)/permissions.json:/bedrock/permissions.json \
  -v $(pwd)/whitelist.json:/bedrock/whitelist.json \
  -e BEDROCK_IN_DOCKER_RESTART_TIME_UTC="03:00" \
  -v bedrock_1-worlds:/bedrock/worlds \
  -v bedrock_1-backups:/backups \
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This Docker image is built on ubuntu Docker images https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu. View license information for Ubuntu.

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

View bedrock-in-docker project MIT license