sytone / godless-coliseum-discord-bot

Godless Coliseum Discord Bot

How to install the bot as a docker container on a server

Building the image

Copy the folder containing the Dockerfile onto the server. Go to the directory that has the Dockerfile and run the following command to build the Docker image from the source code:

docker build -t cgbot .

The image will now be listed by Docker. You can confirm this by running:

docker images

Create a writeable container from the image

docker create --name cgbot cgbot

Run the image

docker start cgbot

Set up a cronjob

Run the command below to edit the cronjobs:

crontab -e

Then add the below line to it:

*/10 * * * * docker stop cgbot && docker start cgbot

This will run the service every ten minutes. To change this use Crontab Guru

View logs from inside the container

Run the below command to see the output of the bot.

docker container logs -f cgbot