Sunshine/DOCKER_README.md

Docker

Important note

Starting with v0.18.0, tag names have changed. You may no longer use latest, master, vX.X.X.

Build your own containers

This image provides a method for you to easily use the latest Sunshine release in your own docker projects. It is not intended to use as a standalone container at this point, and should be considered experimental.

ARG SUNSHINE_VERSION=latest
ARG SUNSHINE_OS=ubuntu-22.04
FROM lizardbyte/sunshine:${SUNSHINE_VERSION}-${SUNSHINE_OS}

# install Steam, Wayland, etc.

ENTRYPOINT steam && sunshine

SUNSHINE_VERSION

• latest, master, vX.X.X
• commit hash

SUNSHINE_OS

Sunshine images are available with the following tag suffixes, based on their respective base images.

• archlinux
• debian-bookworm
• ubuntu-22.04
• ubuntu-24.04

Tags

You must combine the SUNSHINE_VERSION and SUNSHINE_OS to determine the tag to pull. The format should be <SUNSHINE_VERSION>-<SUNSHINE_OS>. For example, latest-ubuntu-24.04.

See all our available tags on docker hub or ghcr for more info.

Where used

This is a list of docker projects using Sunshine. Something missing? Let us know about it!

• Games on Whales

Port and Volume mappings

Examples are below of the required mappings. The configuration file will be saved to /config in the container.

Using docker run

Create and run the container (substitute your <values>):

docker run -d \
  --device /dev/dri/ \
  --name=<image_name> \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  --ipc=host \
  -e PUID=<uid> \
  -e PGID=<gid> \
  -e TZ=<timezone> \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  -p 47984-47990:47984-47990/tcp \
  -p 48010:48010 \
  -p 47998-48000:47998-48000/udp \
  <image>

Using docker-compose

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following contents (substitute your <values>):

version: '3'
services:
  <image_name>:
    image: <image>
    container_name: sunshine
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - <path to data>:/config
    environment:
      - PUID=<uid>
      - PGID=<gid>
      - TZ=<timezone>
    ipc: host
    ports:
      - "47984-47990:47984-47990/tcp"
      - "48010:48010"
      - "47998-48000:47998-48000/udp"

Using podman run

Create and run the container (substitute your <values>):

podman run -d \
  --device /dev/dri/ \
  --name=<image_name> \
  --restart=unless-stopped \
  --userns=keep-id \
  -e PUID=<uid> \
  -e PGID=<gid> \
  -e TZ=<timezone> \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  -p 47984-47990:47984-47990/tcp \
  -p 48010:48010 \
  -p 47998-48000:47998-48000/udp \
  <image>

Parameters

You must substitute the <values> with your own settings.

Parameters are split into two halves separated by a colon. The left side represents the host and the right side the container.

Example: -p external:internal - This shows the port mapping from internal to external of the container. Therefore -p 47990:47990 would expose port 47990 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 47990 (e.g. http://<host_ip>:47990). The internal port must be 47990, but the external port may be changed (e.g. -p 8080:47990). All the ports listed in the docker run and docker-compose examples are required.

Parameter	Function	Example Value	Required
-p <port>:47990	Web UI Port	47990	True
-v <path to data>:/config	Volume mapping	/home/sunshine	True
-e PUID=<uid>	User ID	1001	False
-e PGID=<gid>	Group ID	1001	False
-e TZ=<timezone>	Lookup TZ value	America/New_York	False

For additional configuration, it is recommended to reference the Games on Whales sunshine config.

User / Group Identifiers:

When using data volumes (-v flags) permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container. To avoid this issue you can specify the user PUID and group PGID. Ensure the data volume directory on the host is owned by the same user you specify.

In this instance PUID=1001 and PGID=1001. To find yours use id user as below:

$ id dockeruser
uid=1001(dockeruser) gid=1001(dockergroup) groups=1001(dockergroup)

If you want to change the PUID or PGID after the image has been built, it will require rebuilding the image.

Supported Architectures

Specifying lizardbyte/sunshine:latest-<SUNSHINE_OS> or ghcr.io/lizardbyte/sunshine:latest-<SUNSHINE_OS> should retrieve the correct image for your architecture.

The architectures supported by these images are shown in the table below.

tag suffix	amd64/x86_64	arm64/aarch64
archlinux	✅	❌
debian-bookworm	✅	✅
ubuntu-22.04	✅	✅
ubuntu-24.04	✅	✅

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