RUGS is an efficient, easy-to-deploy alternative to Epic's official metadata server for Unreal Game Sync. It is designed to work seamlessly with Unreal Game Sync, and adds support for basic authentication if desired. It uses a simple sqlite database to have as little setup as possible.
The basic authentication is intended to allow you to run it publicly accessible on the internet with a modicum of security, and requires a small patch applied to Unreal Game Sync before it's available.
Features that a RUGS server will enable in Unreal Game Sync:
- Surfacing build results and providing desktop notifications for build breakages
- Allowing users to mark changes as good and bad, and indicate to other team members that they're investigating a problem with the build
- Showing which users are synced to which changes
Docker images are available for arm64 and amd64, and are hosted on the GitHub
Container Registry. The latest
tag is used for official
releases, or there is a main
tag for bleeding edge builds.
Example command to run the image:
docker run \
-e RUGS_USER_AUTH=ugs:super_secret_password \
-e RUGS_CI_AUTH=ci:even_super_secreter_password \
-p 3000:3000 \
--mount "type=volume,source=rugs_data,destination=/data" \
--name rugs \
ghcr.io/jorgenpt/rugs:latest
You can read about what the environment variables do in the section below.
RUGS expects /data
to be persistent between sessions. The recommended
approach is to mount a Docker volume
at that location. You can change the HTTP port by using -p <desired port>:3000
instead of -p 3000:3000
.
RUGS will automatically create and migrate the database on startup, so when you upgrade, there should not be any other steps needed.
You can also look at examples/docker-compose.yml for a complete setup that supports HTTPS by automatically requesting a certificate from Let's Encrypt.
- Run
./apply_migrations.sh
to initialize the database (it will be written tometadata.db
by default) - Run the server by setting the appropriate environment
variables and then running
cargo run --release
You can configure UGS by adding a section like the following to your
UnrealGameSync.ini
after applying this pull request to your UGS to
adds support for HTTP basic auth credentials:
[Default]
ApiUrl=https://ugs:[email protected]
See also the note about HTTPS
You can configure UGS by adding a section like the following to your
UnrealGameSync.ini
, and you can use Unreal Game Sync out of the box with no
changes:
[Default]
ApiUrl=http://my.rugs.local
To submit badges, you can do one of the following:
- Run
PostBadgeStatus.exe
fromEngine/Source/Programs/UnrealGameSync
(needs pull request #9168 to support authentication), or - Use the Teamcity plugin
teamcity-ugs-status-publisher
to post badges to
https://ci_auth_user:[email protected]
, or - Use the Jenkins plugin
unreal-game-sync-badges
to post badges to
https://ci_auth_user:[email protected]
, or - Make a direct request to the API -- see submitting badges.
By default RUGS exposes a /health
API which can be used to check if the
service is running. It'll return an empty 200 status.
RUGS does not (currently) support an SSL certificate. You should run it on a machine which is not accessible directly from the internet, and configure an endpoint in front of it which handles HTTPS -- e.g. an AWS ALB or your own nginx instance.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, because the authentication is just HTTP Basic
Auth, and so it'll be sent in plaintext over the wire if you're not using HTTPS.
If you're not using HTTPS, make sure RUGS is only accessible from a local
network (in which case you can also leave RUGS_USER_AUTH
empty).
You can also look at examples/docker-compose.yml for a complete setup that supports HTTPS by automatically requesting a certificate from Let's Encrypt.
RUGS_USER_AUTH
: Username and password used for basic auth used by Unreal Game Sync, inuser:pass
format. Defaults to empty, allow anyone to query this without authentication.RUGS_CI_AUTH
: Username and password used for basic auth used to submit badges to RUGS (via CI plugins, PostBadgeStatus.exe, etc), inuser:pass
format. Defaults to empty, allowing anyone to use this API without authentication.RUGS_WEB_ROOT
: The prefix to all the paths we listen to. Defaults to/
.RUGS_PORT
: The HTTP port we listen on. Defaults to 3000. Rarely used with docker, as you can just use-p <desired port>:3000
If you want more control over submitting badges from CI, you can make a POST
request to /api/build
. You need to use HTTP Basic Auth with the RUGS_CI_AUTH
(if any), and provide a JSON body like:
{
"Project": "//myproject/main/MyProject",
"ChangeNumber": 123,
"BuildType": "Editor",
"Result": "Starting",
"Url": "https://my.ci/jobs/100"
}
These fields are:
Project
: The Perforce depot path to the project directory, i.e. the directory where the.uproject
file lives (so//myproject/main/MyProject
, not//myproject/main
or//myproject/main/MyProject/MyProject.uproject
)ChangeNumber
: The Perforce changelist number that the badge is associated withBuildType
: Arbitrary identifier used to update the status of the same badge (a new request with the sameBuildType
andChangeNumber
will overwrite an old badge)Result
: The status color shown in UGS, which can be one ofStarting
,Failure
,Warning
,Success
, orSkipped
Url
: The address that will be opened when the badge is clicked in UGS
To back the data from your Docker volume up, you can use the following command
to create a backup.tar
in the current directory:
docker run --rm \
--volumes-from rugs \
--mount "type=bind,src=$(pwd),dst=/backup" \
debian:stable-slim \
tar cvf "/backup/rugs-backup.$(date +"%Y%m%d.%H%M%S").tar" /data
From within that same directory, you can restore the data with the following command:
docker run --rm \
--volumes-from rugs \
--mount "type=bind,src=$(pwd),dst=/backup" \
debian:stable-slim \
tar -xvf /backup/rugs-backup.<timestamp>.tar -C /data
Where <timestamp>
is the timestamp of the backup you want to restore.
This assumes that the container name is rugs
on your Docker container.
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