ToCloud9 provides a variety of microservices that operate alongside AzerothCore/TrinityCore and enable clustering support, making the system scalable and highly available.

The primary concept underlying the current architecture is to enhance the scalability of TrinityCore/AzerothCore with minimal modifications on their end.

To fulfill these objectives, a game-load-balancer microservice has been developed. Functioning akin to an API Gateway, the game-load-balancer analyzes packets and strategically routes them to the Gameserver or generates requests to other services for handling.

The simplified architecture described below.

If you'd like to read more, you can take a look at the pillars that form the foundation of ToCloud9 here.

Currently, it is possible to play the game, but some functionalities still do not support a distributed architecture (clustering). Here is a list of features/tasks that, once completed, will enable it to replace the widely used unscalable monolith (vanilla TrinityCore/AzerothCore). The status is relevant for integration with AzerothCore.

Utilize the helm chart to seamlessly deploy the solution in your Kubernetes cluster. Kudos to @2o1o0 for the solution.

Prerequisites:

• Database for TrinityCore or AzerothCore;
• TrinityCore or AzerothCore data folder (dbc, vmaps, mmaps) and config (ect folder).
• Docker & docker-compose (for 'Docker-compose' approach);

Steps:

1. Fill in .env file with relevant data.
2. Apply migrations to the characters DB from this folder - sql/characters/mysql/*

# For TrinityCore:
$ docker-compose --profile tc up -d

# For AzerothCore:
$ docker-compose --profile ac up -d

For Windows & AzerothCore use this guide.

For Linux and Mac - TBD.

You can utilise Perun tool to simplify managing of all apps/microservices.

We have the next Discord channel where you can ask any questions and share your feedback.

See LICENSE.