otoryumcomunidad / docker-pterodactyl

Running Pterodactyl Panel inside docker containers behind Traefik reverse proxy

📚 About

There’s a lack of information about setting up and running Pterodactyl Panel inside docker using Traefik as a reverse proxy. This guide focuses on the fastest and easiest way to do that! This setup has been tested and is currently running in a production environment. All of images used in this setup are from official sources and even uses official compose files provided by Pterodactyl with addition of Traefik.

🧰 Getting Started

This guide assumes you have at least two servers, one for panel and one for wings. You're fine by using a cheap VPS for the panel, while wings may require a higher spec server depending on the game servers you're planning to run.

Requirements

• Domain
• Two or more servers
• Docker
• Docker Compose

DNS

Create A record pointing to panel's server IP, if you're using Cloudflare you can proxy this record through Cloudflare.

Create second A record pointing to wings server IP. If you're using Cloudflare, do not proxy this record! There's no advantages for proxying wings server. If it is proxied the server SFTP details in the panel will point to Cloudflare's IP rather than wings.

🏗️ Installation

Preparations / Setting up Traefik

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/EdyTheCow/pterodactyl-docker.git

Set correct acme.json permissions

Navigate to _base/data/traefik/ and run

sudo chmod 600 acme.json

Start docker compose
Inside of _base/compose run

docker-compose up -d

Setting up Panel

Configure variables
Navigate to panel/compose/.env and set PANEL_DOMAIN to the domain you pointed to panel's server earlier.

Navigate to panel/compose/docker-compose.yml and set these variables

Variable	Example	Description
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD	-	Use a password generator to create a strong password
MYSQL_PASSWORD	-	Don't reuse your root's password for this, generate a new one
APP_URL	https://panel.example.com	Same as PANEL_DOMAIN but with https:// included

Rest of the variables can be set as desired, these three are required for panel's basic functionality.

Start docker compose
Inside of panel/compose run

docker-compose up -d

Navigate to the domain you've set for PANEL_DOMAIN earlier and make sure panel is up and running.

Create a new user
Inside of panel/compose run

docker-compose run --rm panel php artisan p:user:make

Login into the panel using newly created user.

Create a new node
Navigate to the admin control panel and add a new Location. Then navigate to Nodes and create a node.

Setting	Set to	Description
FQDN	Wings domain	Domain you pointed to wings server
Behind Proxy	Behind Proxy	Set this to Behind Proxy for Traefik to work properly
Daemon Port	443	Change the default port

Rest of the settings can be set as you desire. You can leave Daemon Server File Directory as is unless you want to store servers data in a specific location. In that case make sure to read instruction in wings/compose/.env. Otherwise proceed with the guide.

Setting up Wings

The guide assumes you're setting this up on a different server than the panel is running on! Go back to the Preparations / Setting up Traefik section and follow the same instruction for setting up Traefik.

Configure variables
Navigate to wings/compose/.env and set WINGS_DOMAIN to the domain you pointed to wings server earlier.

Copying daemon's config
Navigate to the panel in your web browser and find the node you created earlier. Click on Configuration tab and copy the contents into wings/data/wings/etc/config.yml.

Start docker compose

docker-compose up -d

🐛 Known issues

• None

📜 Credits

• Logo created by Wob - Dribbble.com/wob