This image is based on SteamCMD Docker. It also includes Metamod, AMX Mod, DProto and Podbot.

• Metamod is a plugin/DLL manager that sits between the Half-Life Engine and an HL Game mod, allowing the dynamic loading/unloading of mod-like DLL plugins to add functionality to the HL server or game mod.

• AMX Mod X is a Metamod plugin for Half-Life 1. It provides comprehensive scripting for the game engine and its mods. Scripts can intercept network messages, log events, commands, client commands, set cvars, modify entities, and more.

• It allows your server to accept non-Steam clients (clients with a cracked CS), if you don't have dproto installed on your server you can't enter on it without a legit Steam client/account. Dproto makes that possible!

• PODBot MetaMod is an open source (GPL) metamod plugin that adds computer players (bots) to a popular game called Counter-Strike.

The fastest way to run the Counter-Strike 1.6 Server is via docker run.

• Pull the image:

docker pull cajuclc/cstrike-docker

• Run the image:

docker run --name cstrike -p 27015:27015/udp -p 27015:27015 cajuclc/cstrike-docker

• You can also run the server via docker-compose. You can find an example below.

You can use your own server.cfg, dproto.cfg, plugins.ini and mapcycle.txt by mounting them to the container. Any custom config file WILL override the settings from your environment variables.

-v /path/to/your/server.cfg:/home/steam/cstrike/cstrike/server.cfg

The complete docker run command is:

docker run --name cstrike -p 27015:27015/udp -p 27015:27015 -v /path/to/your/server.cfg:/home/steam/cstrike/cstrike/server.cfg cajuclc/cstrike-docker

You can start the server by running:

docker-compose up -d

I wrote an article how to run this image on TrueNAS Scale. You can find the article here.

SteamCMD is responsible to install Counter-Strike and/or other games. There is a current bug that prevents the installation of Counter-Strike 1.6 in a single command. You can read more here.

If you want to be able to use the Podbot admin menu, you need to configure your Counter-Strike client (the one you play the game) with password. First make sure you add the file podbot/podbot.cfg as a mount to your container. This is the folder in the container:

/home/steam/cstrike/cstrike/addons/podbot/podbot.cfg

Search for pb_passwordkey, that's the name we will need. In my case: pb_passwordkey "_pbadminpw".
Now I need the password, it's the next configuration. Here is mine: pb_password "your_password" (make sure you change your password).
We have to configure the password on the client (game) now. Open cstrike folder inside Steam installation. In my case I use a separate disk for all my games and this is where Counter-Strike is installed:

E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\cstrike

I manually created a file called autoexec.cfg. If you already this file, you just need to edit. Add the line:

setinfo _pbadminpw "your_password"

Again, make sure you use some safe password. Now open the game and create a bind:

bind "=" "pb menu"

This way every time you press = it will open the Podbot menu and you can add, remove, kill bots and much more.

If you need to have access to AMX Mod Menu. Then mount file users.ini to this location:

/home/steam/cstrike/cstrike/addons/amxmodx/configs/users.ini

Here is an example of the file: https://github.com/alliedmodders/amxmodx/blob/master/configs/users.ini You need to add your user/IP/steam_id to the list. Then inside the autoexec.cfg file we just created/edited you can add:

setinfo _pw "mypassword"

We get the _pw configuration from amx_password_field "_pw", which comes from this file: https://github.com/alliedmodders/amxmodx/blob/master/configs/amxx.cfg#L14

You can find the list of IDs here.

• 10 - Counter-Strike
• 70 - Half-Life
• 90 - Counter-Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server

The code to install the mods and bots were utilized from other repositories. Please give them some love and support.

• counter-strike-docker, created by Dimitris Touzloudis.
• cs16-server, created by Marcin Prokop.
• counter-strike_server, created by febLey.

My friends and I decided to have a LAN Party (remember those?) at my house and we will be playing some classic games.
Instead of running these games directly on my PC, I decided to run on my TrueNAS server. TrueNAS allows you to run containers, so I decided to create this docker image.