jcrawfordor/spigotserver repository overview

⁠spigotserver

This is an alpine-linux based image to run the Spigot minecraft server with various plugins. It is somewhat specialized for the voxel.rocks minecraft server that I operate, although I hope to generalize it enough that others will be able to readily adapt it to their use.

Spigot is built during container build to avoid any legal problems w.r.t. distributing the Spigot binary. Besides this, the container is extremely simple. Minecraft will be executed with a cwd of /data, and so you should hostmount this to wherever you intend to keep all of your data. No special considerations are made for first-time startup, but the server should handle the case of an empty data directory acceptably by generating a default configuration.

A future direction for this container might be automatic retrieval of plugins at build-time, which would be very slick, but would come at the cost of flexibility in deployment. It would also be a bit of a pain since Minecraft mixes plugins and their configuration and data all into one directory tree.

⁠Usage

docker run -v /srv/minecraft:/data -p 25565:25565 jcrawfordor/spigotserver