Factorio Server Container Manager

factorio.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# - [1] From here: https://www.tutorialworks.com/podman-rootless-volumes/
# - [2] https://github.com/factoriotools/factorio-docker
# To run this without root, we apparently need to do the following: [1]
# `podman unshare chown 845:845 /home/dkirwan/factorio`
# Then run the container with `--user 845`, to match what the container expects: see [2]
# And add the `:Z` to the volume to mark it as a private share

factorio_start () {
  echo "Starting the factorio server"
  podman run --user 845 \
    -d \
    -p 34197:34197/udp \
    -p 27015:27015/tcp \
    -v /home/dkirwan/factorio:/factorio:Z \
    --name factorio \
    --restart=always \
    factoriotools/factorio
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then
    echo "done."
  else
    echo "Looks like the container already exists, trying to start it"
    podman start factorio
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
      echo "done."
    else
      echo "Error: " >&2
    fi
  fi
}


factorio_stop () {
  echo "Stopping the factorio server"
  podman stop factorio
}


factorio_update () {
  echo "Running factorio update"
  factorio_stop
  podman rm factorio
  podman pull factoriotools/factorio
}



if [ "$1" == "start" ]; then factorio_start; fi
if [ "$1" == "stop" ]; then factorio_stop; fi
if [ "$1" == "update" ]; then factorio_update; fi