Prerequisites

Thundernetes foundational knowledge. 💖

Here you will find resources that will fill the knowledge gaps when working with technologies within thundernetes.

👉Thundernetes was named after a combination of the words thunderhead and kubernetes. Thunderhead is the internal code name for the Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers service.

Docker and Containerisation 🚢

• Docker Basics

Kubernetes 🌼

Kubernetes is built on top of Docker to run containers at scale across many machines. We recommend that you have knowledge in the following Kubernetes areas before getting started with thundernetes.

Kubernetes Resources

• Kubernetes Basics
• Kubernetes core concepts for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• kubectl
• kind
  • kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”.
  • kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

Game Servers 👾

• Integrating Game Servers with Game Server SDK (GSDK)
• Azure PlayFab Game Server SDK

Azure Account ☁️

You can host your Kubernetes clusters in Azure. If you don’t have an account you can create one for free.

• Create your Azure Account

Azure Blob Storage

• Blob Storage Overview

Game Engine 🎮

Using your multiplayer game to integrate with Thundernetes.

• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers Gameserver Samples

Metrics 💹

• Prometheus Metrics