createContainerGroupDefinition

Creates a ContainerGroupDefinition that describes a set of containers for hosting your game server with Amazon GameLift Servers managed containers hosting. An Amazon GameLift Servers container group is similar to a container task or pod. Use container group definitions when you create a container fleet with CreateContainerFleet.

A container group definition determines how Amazon GameLift Servers deploys your containers to each instance in a container fleet. You can maintain multiple versions of a container group definition.

There are two types of container groups:

• A game server container group has the containers that run your game server application and supporting software. A game server container group can have these container types:

• Game server container. This container runs your game server. You can define one game server container in a game server container group.

• Support container. This container runs software in parallel with your game server. You can define up to 8 support containers in a game server group. When building a game server container group definition, you can choose to bundle your game server executable and all dependent software into a single game server container. Alternatively, you can separate the software into one game server container and one or more support containers.On a container fleet instance, a game server container group can be deployed multiple times (depending on the compute resources of the instance). This means that all containers in the container group are replicated together.

• A per-instance container group has containers for processes that aren't replicated on a container fleet instance. This might include background services, logging, test processes, or processes that need to persist independently of the game server container group. When building a per-instance container group, you can define up to 10 support containers.

This operation requires Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to access container images in Amazon ECR repositories. See IAM permissions for Amazon GameLift Servers for help setting the appropriate permissions.

Request options

Use this operation to make the following types of requests. You can specify values for the minimum required parameters and customize optional values later.

• Create a game server container group definition. Provide the following required parameter values:

• Name

• ContainerGroupType (GAME_SERVER)

• OperatingSystem (omit to use default value)

• TotalMemoryLimitMebibytes (omit to use default value)

• TotalVcpuLimit (omit to use default value)

• At least one GameServerContainerDefinition

• ContainerName

• ImageUrl

• PortConfiguration

• ServerSdkVersion (omit to use default value)

• Create a per-instance container group definition. Provide the following required parameter values:

• Name

• ContainerGroupType (PER_INSTANCE)

• OperatingSystem (omit to use default value)

• TotalMemoryLimitMebibytes (omit to use default value)

• TotalVcpuLimit (omit to use default value)

• At least one SupportContainerDefinition

• ContainerName

• ImageUrl

Results

If successful, this request creates a ContainerGroupDefinition resource and assigns a unique ARN value. You can update most properties of a container group definition by calling UpdateContainerGroupDefinition, and optionally save the update as a new version.