The game nodes are some regular nodes in K8S clusters with a specific label. You can use node affinity or taint/toleration to schedule the game servers on the game nodes and also prevent scheduling other services (like game manager or database) on the game nodes. You can use Terraform to create these resources on the cloud providers. For autoscaling the game nodes (scale up the nodes if you get more traffic and vice versa), you can use the cluster autoscale feature on some cloud providers.

This is part number nine of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. In this part, we will enhance the system's security. In the past architecture, the game manager generated a new asymmetric RSA key for each game and passed it to the…

This is part number eight of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. Now we have a Kubernetes cluster and need to make a pipeline for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Continuous Integration (CI) Branch rules The main branch is protected and nobody can push to it…

This is part number seven of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. hmm, let’s get started to deploy all these applications. The game manager and the game server applications have been dockerized, and some Github Actions have been added to publish the…

This is part number six of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. I started my career by working as a freelancer windows application developer (C# and C++) about 12 years ago, after a while I start working for a game company that…

This is part number five of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. This part is more related to game development, we are going to implement the game mechanics and logic. Logic The game server simulates a drag car race. The gameplay is simple…

This is part number five of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. Before following up on the pipeline, we start with the game server architecture first. Networking There are two channels to communicate with the game server, the reliable channel to publish the…

This is part number four of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. Our exciting journey has begun, we are going to design and describe each of the services in detail. Let’s start again with the sub-services of the game manager. Matchmaking I developed…

This is part number thee of the Garage series, you can access all parts at the end of this post. This is the main part of engineering, we’re going to create a schematic model of our mental model for the whole system. …