Unreal Containers

This is likely to be of interest to anyone who is looking to run Pixel Streaming applications inside Windows containers, which has previously required custom entrypoint scripts to enable GPU accelerated video encoding APIs.

An introductory video series has been published on the Unreal Online Learning website that provides an overview and demos of the official container support introduced in Unreal Engine 4.27: learn.unrealengine.com/course/3773792

New guide: determining whether to use Linux containers, Windows containers, or to skip containers entirely and use virtual machines unrealcontainers.com/docs/prelimina…

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The official Unreal Engine 4.27 container images are now live on GitHub Container Registry! To get started, follow the instructions in the Quick Start Guide to authenticate with GHCR and pull a development image: docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Sha…

New use case: Dedicated Servers unrealcontainers.com/docs/use-cases…

New blog post: Identifying application runtime dependencies unrealcontainers.com/blog/identifyi…

New blog post: Enabling vendor-specific graphics APIs in Windows containers unrealcontainers.com/blog/enabling-…

CORRECTION: we previously stated that DirectX Raytracing with the Unreal Engine does not function in GPU accelerated Windows containers. We have subsequently discovered how to make raytracing work correctly and the blog post has been revised accordingly. unrealcontainers.com/blog/offscreen…

New blog post: Offscreen rendering in Windows containers unrealcontainers.com/blog/offscreen…

Are you interested in lightweight containers for CI/CD on macOS? Provide feedback on the discussion here: github.com/containerd/con…

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The Unreal Containers community now has a Discord server! discord.gg/x9XpGKfE

Container support has been spotted on the public roadmap for Unreal Engine 4.27: portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-un…

Big changes are ahead for the ue4-docker project, but the biggest new feature is already available for use today. Export generated Dockerfiles and build them in environments where ue4-docker itself is not present: adamrehn.com/articles/previ…

The most frequent request we receive from the Unreal Engine developer community is to provide guidance on how Pixel Streaming applications can be deployed at scale in the cloud. Today we unveil our proposed solution. tensorworks.com.au/blog/an-open-a…

Thanks to the efforts of two valiant heroes, the 4.25 version of Pixel Streaming for Linux is now available for all Unreal Engine licensees. tensorworks.com.au/blog/pixel-str…

New blog post: Investigating Unreal Engine performance in Linux cloud environments unrealcontainers.com/blog/investiga…

New repository: example Dockerfiles to demonstrate various use cases for Unreal Containers, including CI/CD for projects and plugins, Pixel Streaming for Linux, and more. github.com/adamrehn/ue4-e…

Linux support for the Unreal Engine's Pixel Streaming system is now available to all Engine licensees: adamrehn.com/articles/pixel…