Crafty Controller on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Crafty Controller on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Crafty Controller is an open source, self-hosted control panel for running and administering Minecraft and other game servers from your browser. Create, start, stop and restart servers, watch a live console and send commands, edit configuration, schedule automated tasks and backups, set per-server resource limits, and give your team role-based access - all without touching the command line.

cloudimg packages Crafty Controller from the vendor's official container, pinned by digest, on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

• The Python (Tornado) panel, published only on loopback and fronted by nginx with TLS
• The embedded SQLite datastore, held in Docker volumes captured into the image
• Bundled Java runtime handling for the managed game servers

Secure by default

Crafty generates a fresh, random administrator password uniquely on the first boot of every VM and never bakes a known credential into the image; the password is written to a root-only file on the instance for you to retrieve. The panel is published only on the loopback interface behind an nginx reverse proxy that terminates TLS on a per-VM self-signed certificate (the included guide walks through installing a trusted certificate with Let's Encrypt), and unauthenticated API requests are refused.

What you get

• Crafty Controller 4.10.7 from the official image, pinned by digest, managed as a systemd service
• A unique random administrator password generated at first boot, stored root-only
• An nginx TLS reverse proxy with a per-VM certificate, WebSocket aware for the live console
• A paired step-by-step deployment guide
• Ongoing security patching and image maintenance
• 24/7 expert cloudimg support

Licensing and pricing

Crafty Controller is open source under the GPL-3.0 licence and is free to use. The cloudimg charge of $0.04 per vCPU per hour covers packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 support. Recommended size: Standard_B2s for the panel; size up for the game servers you run.

Guide: https://www.cloudimg.co.uk/guides/crafty-controller-on-ubuntu-24-04-azure/. 24/7 support: support@cloudimg.co.uk.