Factorio Server in Docker

Runs a minimal Factorio server in Docker. There are a few other similar projects on GitHub but none fit my requirements.

Features

• Built on Distroless containers for portability
• Uses a non-root user for security
• Only runs factorio in the container
• Simple Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files
• One step deployment that creates a valid server on localhost
• Stores Factorio data and configs in a Docker volume

Configuration

You should replace the map-gen-settings.json, map-settings.json, and server-settings.json in the settings directory with your own, otherwise a default railworld server will be created on LAN.

Build and Deploy

Building the container and deploying the service is simple.

Build

docker build . --tag factorio-docker
docker swarm init || true  # this only needs to be run once

Deploy

docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml factorio-docker