factorio-server-manager/docker

Factorio Server Manager Docker Image

Prerequisites

You need to have Docker and Docker Compose installed.

Getting started?

Copy docker-compose.yaml and .env files from this repository to somewhere on your server.

Edit values in the .env file:

• ADMIN_USER (default admin): Name of the default user created for FSM UI.
• ADMIN_PASS (default factorio): Default user password.
  Important: For security reasons, please change the default user name and password. Never use the defaults.
• RCON_PASS (default empty string): Password for Factorio RCON (FSM uses it to communicate with the Factorio server).
  If left empty, a random password will be generated and saved on the first start of the server. You can see the password in fsm-data/conf.json file.
• COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_KEY (default empty string): The key used to encrypt auth cookie for FSM UI.
  If left empty, a random key will be generated and saved on the first start of the server. You can see the key in fsm-data/conf.json file.
• DOMAIN_NAME (must be set manually): The domain name where your FSM UI will be available. Must be set, so Let's Encrypt service can issue a valid HTTPS certificate for this domain.
• EMAIL_ADDRESS (must be set manually): Your email address. Used only by Let's Encrypt service.

Alternatively you can ignore .env file and edit this values directly in environment section of docker-compose.yaml. But remember that if .env file is present, values set there take precedence over values set in docker-compose.yaml.

Now you can start the container by running:

docker-compose up -d

Simple configuration without HTTPS

If you don't care about HTTPS and want to run just the Factorio Server Manager, or want to run it on local machine you can use docker-compose.simple.yaml.

Ignore DOMAIN_NAME and EMAIL_ADDREESS variables in .env file and run

docker-compose -f docker-compose.simple.yaml up -d

Factorio version

By default container will download the latest version of factorio. If you want to use specific version, you can change the value of FACTORIO_VERSION=latest variable in the docker-compose.yaml file.

Accessing the application

Go to the domain specified in your .env file in your web browser. If running on localhost host access the application at http://localhost

First start

When container starts it begins to dowload Factorio headless server archive, and only after that Factorio Server Manager server starts. So when Docker Compose writes

Creating factorio-server-manager ... done

you have to wait several seconds before FSM UI becomes available.

It may take some time for Let's Encrypt to issue the certificate, so for the first couple of minutes after starting the container you may see "Your connection is not private" error when you open your Factorio Server Manager address in your browser. This error should disappear within a couple of minutes, if configuration parameters are set correctly.

Updating Credentials, adding and deleting users.

An admin user is created initially using the credentials defined in the factorio-server-manager config file.

Users can be added and deleted on the settings page.

Updating Factorio

For now you can't update/downgrade the Factorio version from the UI.

You can however do this using docker images while sustaining your security settings and map/modfiles.

If you want to update Factorio to the latest version:

1. Save your game and stop Factorio server in FSM UI.
2. Run docker-compose restart (or docker-compose -f docker-compose.simple.yaml restart if you are using simple configuration).

After container starts, latest Factorio version will be downloaded and installed.

Security

Authentication is supported in the application but it is recommended to ensure access to the Factorio manager UI is accessible via VPN or internal network.

For everyone who actually read this thing to the end

And now go and build some nice factories!