BF2 server docker builder

This is a simple script to build a contained docker image of the linux bf2 server files.

Building container

You must obtained the bf2 server install script first and place it in the root directory. You can override the default script name of bf2-linuxded-1.5.3153.0-installer.sh by setting the build argument BF2_INSTALL_SCRIPT.

By default it will install bf2hub as well which requires downloading bf2hub's server files from bf2hub.com/home/serversetup.php. These files must also be plased in the root directory. You can override the default filename of BF2Hub-Unranked-Linux-R3.tar.gz by setting the build argument BF2HUB.

Once the necessary dependencies are available, simply run

docker build -t bf2/server:latest .

To build without bf2hub run

docker build -t bf2/server:latest --build-arg BUILD=nobf2hub .

Ports

The bf2 server docs specify all the ports below should be forwarded

Protocol	Port(s)	Details
TCP	80
TCP	4711	RCON
UDP/TCP	1024-1124
UDP	1500-4999
UDP	16567	Server Port
UDP/TCP	18000
UDP/TCP	18300
UDP/TCP	27900
UDP	27901
UDP/TCP	29900	GameSpy
UDP	55123-55125	VOIP

However starting up a fresh server, netstat reports the following ports

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4711            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1/bf2
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:55124           0.0.0.0:*                           1/bf2
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:55125           0.0.0.0:*                           1/bf2
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:16567           0.0.0.0:*                           1/bf2
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:29900           0.0.0.0:*                           1/bf2

Running

For the most basic setup, you only need to expose 2 ports 16567 and 29900.

• 16567 Is needed for game play.
• 29900 Is needed to see the game in the server browser.

docker run -p 16567:16567/udp -p 29900:29900/udp --rm -it bf2/server:latest

See the example compose.yaml for deploying with docker compose.

You can add additional arguments for the bf2 binary at the end of the docker command. You can run docker run --rm bf2/server:latest +help to see configurable options.

docker run \
  --rm \
  --tty \
  -p 16567:16567/udp \
  -p 29900:29900/udp \
  -v ./examples/maplist_bf2.con:/maplist.con \
  -v ./examples/serversettings.con:/serversettings.con \
  bf2/server:latest +config /serversettings.con +mapList /maplist.con

Here I've added the maplist_bf2.con and serversettings.con files and added the corresponding args at the end of the command.

Alternatively most options are configurable with environment variables with BF2_$OPTION_NAME.

For example BF2_CONFIG=/serversettings.con and BF2_MAPLIST=/serversettings.con.