README.md

Create a resource group to associate the container with

To create Azure resources they must be associated with a resource group. You can create a new resource group with the following:

az group create --name GameResources --location eastus

where GameResources is the name of the resource group and eastus is the Azure location you want the resources associated with. You can modify either of these to your needs.

Create the container and storage account for the resource group

Customize CreateContainer.json, specifically the following:

• dnsPrefix.defaultValue: This is a unique prefix to give to your dns address which will be used to connect to your container. The final form will be dnsPrefix-factorio.eastus.azurecontainer.io assuming your resource group is in the eastus location.
• variables.cpuCores: The number of cores for the container
• variables.memoryInGb: The memory of the container

Then run the following command which will create the storage account (unless it already exists) and container instance

az deployment group create --resource-group GameResources --template-file CreateContainer.json

Customizing settings

After you have created the container, it will initialize all of its configuration in the storage account which can be accessed through the Azure Portal. After customizing the settings restart the container with:

az container restart --resource-group GameResources --name factorio

where GameResouces is your resource group and factorio is the name of your container group.

Updating the container

Since all of the game data is persisted in the storage account, updating the container is just deleting and creating it again. This can be done with:

az container delete --resource-group GameResources --name factorio

az deployment group create --resource-group GameResources --template-file CreateContainer.json

where GameResouces is your resource group and factorio is the name of your container group.