A nice and easy way to get a Terraria server up and running using docker and TShock. For help on getting started with docker see the official getting started guide. For more information on Terraria and check out it's website. You can simply take the image from the official repository with:

docker.io pull izissise/terraria

Running this will build you a docker image with the latest version of both docker-terraria and TShock itself.

git clone https://github.com/izissise/docker-terraria
cd docker-terraria
docker.io build -t izissise/terraria .

Running the first time will set your port to a static port of your choice so that you can easily map a proxy to. If this is the only thing running on your system you can map the port to 7777 and no proxy is needed. i.e. -p=7777:7777.

docker.io run -i -p 7777:7777 --name="terraria" izissise/terraria

From now on when you start/stop docker-terraria you should use the container id with the following commands. To get your container id, after you initial run type sudo docker.io ps and it will show up on the left side followed by the image name which is izissise/terraria.

docker.io start <container_id>
docker.io stop <container_id>

• izissise/terraria is simply what I called my docker build of this image
• -d=true allows this to run cleanly as a daemon, remove for debugging
• -p is the port it connects to, -p=host_port:docker_port