Docker: Perforce Server for Unreal Engine

This is the Xist.GG Docker config to set up a Perforce Server for development in Unreal Engine.

This will intialize P4D with Xist's Perforce Setup typemap for Unreal Engine projects.

Based on Ubuntu jammy which should be relatively stable.

Usage

# Set these as you wish
$DockerTag = 'p4-xist'
$P4InstanceName = 'P4Xist'
$ContainerHostname = 'docker-p4'

Build Image

If you give it an (optional) Public SSH Key on build, it will give this key access to the perforce user account, which can sudo.

This effectively gives full root permission on the container to the key owner.

If you omit this, ssh will not be installed and remote access and maintenance will not be possible.

# cd into this Git repo clone directory to build
docker build . -t=$DockerTag `
  --build-arg PUBLIC_SSH_KEY="Your Public Key Here"

Run Container

In this example we expose ssh port 22 in addition to p4 port 1666.

Local port is 42K, obviously. ;)

# after having built the image, run a container with ENV
docker run `
  --hostname=$ContainerHostname `
  --env=NAME=$P4InstanceName `
  -p 42022:22 `
  -p 42666:1666 `
  --env=PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin `
  --env=DATAVOLUME=/data `
  --volume=/data `
  --runtime=runc `
  -d ${DockerTag}:latest

Note this uses the DEFAULT PASSWORD for the P4 admin user, so you will want to login and change it immediately.

Save Image

# Save this image to the NAS
docker save $DockerTag -o \\NAS\Dev\Perforce\Docker\${DockerTag}.tar

Thanks

Thanks to froyok for the excellent blog covering the topic of How to Install P4D into a Docker Container.

Thanks to ambakshi for providing the base repo that inspired and provided initial code for this one.