feat(ark): ready when advertising for join

First boot with the install fix ran ARK for ~10 minutes and found, in ShooterGame.log: "Server: ... has successfully started!", "EOS ownership validation initialized: Success", "Full Startup: 36.26 seconds" and, about two minutes later, "Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join. (9.96GB Mem)". That last line is when players, console players through EOS included, can join, so it is the readyPattern; the real line is test.yaml's readyExample. Boot tests now wait for it instead of only checking ARK stays up for 10 minutes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fix(ark): retry the server install before handing over to the image
2026-10-25 02:35:52 -04:00 · 2026-10-25 02:25:45 -04:00
2 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ id: ark-survival-ascended-crossplay
 name: 'ARK: Survival Ascended (Crossplay Dedicated Server)'
 defaultDockerImage: mschnitzer/asa-linux-server:latest
 containerUser: "25000:25000"
-defaultStartupCommand: bash -c 'mkdir -p /server /data/Steam /data/steamcmd /data/cluster-shared && rm -rf /home/gameserver/server-files /home/gameserver/Steam /home/gameserver/steamcmd /home/gameserver/cluster-shared && ln -sfn /server /home/gameserver/server-files && ln -sfn /data/Steam /home/gameserver/Steam && ln -sfn /data/steamcmd /home/gameserver/steamcmd && ln -sfn /data/cluster-shared /home/gameserver/cluster-shared && export ASA_START_PARAMS="${ASA_START_PARAMS:-${SERVER_MAP:-TheIsland_WP}?listen?Port=${PORT:-7777}?RCONPort=${RCONPORT:-27020}?RCONEnabled=True -WinLiveMaxPlayers=${MAX_PLAYERS:-70} -ServerPlatform=ALL}" && exec /usr/bin/start_server'
+defaultStartupCommand: bash -c 'mkdir -p /server /data/Steam /data/steamcmd /data/cluster-shared && rm -rf /home/gameserver/server-files /home/gameserver/Steam /home/gameserver/steamcmd /home/gameserver/cluster-shared && ln -sfn /server /home/gameserver/server-files && ln -sfn /data/Steam /home/gameserver/Steam && ln -sfn /data/steamcmd /home/gameserver/steamcmd && ln -sfn /data/cluster-shared /home/gameserver/cluster-shared && (cd /home/gameserver/steamcmd && { [ -x steamcmd.sh ] || wget -qO- https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz | tar xz; } && for i in 1 2 3; do ./steamcmd.sh +login anonymous +quit; ./steamcmd.sh +force_install_dir /home/gameserver/server-files +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit; [ -f /home/gameserver/server-files/ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/ArkAscendedServer.exe ] && break; echo "ARK install attempt $i failed, retrying in 15s"; sleep 15; done) && export ASA_START_PARAMS="${ASA_START_PARAMS:-${SERVER_MAP:-TheIsland_WP}?listen?Port=${PORT:-7777}?RCONPort=${RCONPORT:-27020}?RCONEnabled=True -WinLiveMaxPlayers=${MAX_PLAYERS:-70} -ServerPlatform=ALL}" && exec /usr/bin/start_server'
 requiredMemoryMb: 16384
 requiredDiskMb: 32768
 defaultPorts:
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ agnosticCommandConfig:
  restPortKey: null
  restUser: null
 logFilePath: ShooterGame/Saved/Logs/ShooterGame.log
+readyPattern: Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join
 backupPaths:
  - ShooterGame/Saved
 maxBackupSizeMb: 4096
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/test.schema.json
 # Values CI uses to boot-test this game. Never put real credentials here: map them under 'secrets'.
-# No readyPattern yet: the server must stay up for 10 minutes, which covers the ~13 GB first
-# download and Proton's slow first start.
-settleSec: 600
+# Ready means advertising for join, which comes about 2 minutes after "Full Startup"; the first boot also
+# installs ~13 GB and Proton, so the timeout is generous.
+readyExample: '[2026.10.25-06.32.24:246][239]Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join. (9.96GB Mem)'
 timeoutSec: 2400