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Thundernetes makes it easy to run your game servers on Kubernetes.

Thundernetes is a project originating from theAzure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers team and other teams in Azure/XBOX that enables you to run both Windows and Linux game servers on your Kubernetes cluster. Thundernetes can be useful in the following scenarios:

• host your game servers on a Kubernetes cluster, either on a public cloud provider or on-premise and allow your users to connect from everywhere
• pre-warm game servers so that they are ready to accept players within seconds, when the game is about to start
• as part of your iterative development process, you can use Thundernetes locally to test your game server code

IMPORTANT: Thundernetes should be seen as more of an experiment and not supported for production environments.

Thundernetes offers:

• game server auto-scaling, based onrequested standingBy levels
• alatency server to test client connection to multiple Kubernetes cluster and determine the best cluster to connect to
• aGame Server SDK in multiple languages/environments (Unity, Unreal, C#, C++, Java, Go) and alocal utility to test your game server integration locally
• aweb-based User Interface to manage Thundernetes deployments in multiple clusters. This component utilizes aREST API which you can use to manage your game servers
• an experimentalintelligent standingBy server count forecaster that utilizes various algorithms to predict the number of game servers that will be needed
• game server related Prometheus metrics and Grafana charts

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As mentioned, Thundernetes is in beta stage. If you find a bug or have a feature request, please file an issuehere and we will try to get back to you as soon as possible. You can also reach us directly onGame Dev server on Discord.