building · discord bot · docker · proxmox · repo private for now

what it is

Gestalt lets people in my Discord start their own game servers without asking me. They pick a game from a dropdown, and a few seconds later there's a server running on my homelab with its own address.

how it works

1. Someone opens Gestalt's panel in Discord and picks a game.
2. Gestalt starts that server in a Docker container on my Proxmox cluster. Up to about five run at once.
3. Each server gets a numbered name like minecraft1 or factorio1 under gestalt.roguesector.dev.
4. Players connect through a cloud relay, so they don't install anything and my home IP stays hidden.

infrastructure

• Relay: a cloud relay as the main route, with a backup route.
• Backups cover the game worlds only, not whole VMs.

up next

• A web dashboard with Discord login
• Server owners can only change their own server, plus an admin view just for me
• A per-server game console in the browser
• Owner settings like the server icon (but not IPs or ports)
• Picking the game version or a modpack, like commercial hosts offer