Nakama

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

Overview

Nakama is an open source, self-hosted realtime backend for games and apps. It provides user authentication, a storage engine, realtime multiplayer and matchmaking, chat, leaderboards, tournaments and a server-side runtime, all through WebSocket and RPC client APIs, with a built-in admin console for operating the server. This image delivers Nakama fully installed and hardened, so a working backend is running within minutes of launch instead of assembling a server binary, a database and a reverse proxy by hand.

Application Stack

Nakama runs as a single self-contained Go server under a dedicated unprivileged system user, backed by PostgreSQL for durable state. The admin console binds to the loopback interface and is reverse-proxied behind nginx on port 80 with WebSocket support, and the game client API is served on port 7350 for your client SDKs. systemd manages PostgreSQL, Nakama and nginx for automatic restarts and clean logging.

Realtime Backend For Games And Apps

Authenticate players by device, email, custom id or social login, store and read per-user and shared data through the storage engine, run realtime multiplayer matches through the matchmaker, add chat channels, leaderboards and tournaments, and extend the server with runtime code. Connect any Nakama client SDK to the client API using the per-instance server key.

Secure First Boot

Nakama ships many default secrets, including the admin console login, the socket server key and its session and signing keys. This image closes that safely: on the first boot of every instance a one-shot service generates a fresh, unique value for every one of those secrets and a fresh PostgreSQL password, randomises the console administrator username so the default admin account does not exist, writes them to a configuration file only root and the service can read, and applies the database schema. No shared or default password or server key ever ships in the image, and the credentials are written to a file only the root user can read.

Ready To Use

The admin console is served on port 80 through nginx. Browse to the instance, sign in with the generated console credentials, and manage accounts, storage, leaderboards and configuration. Point your game or app client at the client API on port 7350 with the generated server key. The operating system is fully patched at build time and continues to receive unattended security updates, and 24/7 cloudimg support is included.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with deployment, client SDK integration, authentication, the storage engine, realtime multiplayer and matchmaking, leaderboards, the server runtime, version upgrades, performance tuning and PostgreSQL database administration.

This is a repackaged open source software product with additional charges for cloudimg support services. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.