Fly High, Game On: Pelican's pledge for unrivaled game servers.
Pelican Panel is a free, open-source game server control panel built for communities, hosts, and self-hosters. It gives users a modern web UI for creating and managing game servers while running each server in an isolated Docker container through Wings.
Use Pelican if you want:
- A modern alternative in the Pterodactyl ecosystem
- Docker-isolated game servers
- Support for Minecraft, SteamCMD games, databases, bots, voice servers, and more
- A free, open-source panel suitable for personal servers, communities, and hosting providers
- Read the documentation
- Join the Discord
- Wings
- Open a GitHub Discussion for general project questions
- Open an Issue for confirmed bugs
Pelican supports a wide variety of games by utilizing Docker containers to isolate each instance. This gives you the power to run game servers without bloating machines with a host of additional dependencies.
Some of our popular eggs include:
| Category | Eggs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft | Paper | Sponge | Bungeecord | Waterfall |
| SteamCMD | 7 Days to Die | ARK: Survival | Arma 3 | Counter Strike |
| DayZ | Enshrouded | Left 4 Dead | Palworld | |
| Project Zomboid | Satisfactory | Sons of the Forest | Starbound | |
| Standalone Games | Among Us | Factorio | FTL | GTA |
| Kerbal Space | Mindustry | Rimworld | Terraria | |
| Discord Bots | Redbot | JMusicBot | Dynamica | |
| Voice Servers | Mumble | Teamspeak | Lavalink | |
| Software | Elasticsearch | Gitea | Grafana | RabbitMQ |
| Programming | Node.js | Python | Java | C# |
| Databases | Redis | MariaDB | PostgreSQL | MongoDB |
| Storage | S3 | SFTP Share | ||
| Monitoring | Prometheus | Loki |
We welcome contributions from developers, designers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and egg maintainers.
Good places to start:
- Read
contributing.md - Browse open issues
- Join Discord and ask where help is needed
- Improve docs or submit egg updates
Pelican is built and maintained by volunteers. If Pelican helps you or your community, consider supporting ongoing development:
- Sponsor the project
- Contribute code or documentation
- Help answer questions in Discord
- Share Pelican with other server owners
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