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Agones Installation

✍ Last Updated : September 19, 2022

🚪 Prequisite Knowledge (Optional)

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[Containerization / Docker](Containerization Docker 2e0ce73ff63b419d9e2782d79c4cc440.md)

[Kubernetes Basics](Kubernetes Basics 13d23a5871e14e34b61adac97169813b.md)

[Helm (Kubernetes Package Manager)](Helm (Kubernetes Package Manager)%20b59a71bc7bdf4ec28d83450058a82ea4.md)

❓ Key Question / Problem / Issue

How to setup agones infrastructure in kubernetes cluster ?

✅ Expected Output/Definition of Done

Clear Guideline on how to setup Agones within kubernetes cluster

🎁 Resulting Solution

Create “agones-system” namespace

We will install Agones in this namespace

run

kubectl create namespace agones-system

result

namespace/agones-system created

Add Agones chart to local repositories

run

helm repo add agones https://agones.dev/chart/stable

result

"agones" has been added to your repositories

Update repositories

run

helm repo update

result

Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories...
...Successfully got an update from the "agones" chart repository
...Successfully got an update from the "bitnami" chart repository
Update Complete. ⎈Happy Helming!⎈

Install Agones

Install agones on namespace “agones-system”

run

helm upgrade -i --set agones.ping.replicas=1,agones.allocator.replicas=1 agones-release --namespace agones-system agones/agones --version 1.25.0

result

NAME: agones-release
LAST DEPLOYED: Wed Jul 27 17:29:21 2022
NAMESPACE: agones-system
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
The Agones components have been installed in the namespace agones-system.

You can get their status by running:
kubectl --namespace agones-system get pods -o wide

Once ready you can create your first GameServer using our examples https://agones.dev/site/docs/getting-started/create-gameserver/ 
.

Finally don't forget to explore our documentation and usage guides on how to develop and host dedicated game servers on top of Agones:

 - Create a Game Server (https://agones.dev/site/docs/getting-started/create-gameserver/)
 - Integrating the Game Server SDK (https://agones.dev/site/docs/guides/client-sdks/)
 - GameServer Health Checking (https://agones.dev/site/docs/guides/health-checking/)
 - Accessing Agones via the Kubernetes API (https://agones.dev/site/docs/guides/access-api/)

Confirm Agones is installed

Get all pods in namespace "agones-system" to confirm if agones is running

run

kubectl get pods --namespace agones-system

result

NAME                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
agones-allocator-75fd8db77-5gmps     1/1     Running   0          84s
agones-controller-57dc6bcf66-tp5rr   1/1     Running   0          84s
agones-ping-5d65c78cb5-5s6ph         1/1     Running   0          84s
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