Container for the parameters to the CreateFleet operation. Creates a new fleet to run your game servers. A fleet is a set of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, each of which can run multiple server processes to host game sessions. You configure a fleet to create instances with certain hardware specifications (see
Amazon EC2 Instance Types for more information), and deploy a specified game build to each instance. A newly created fleet passes through several statuses; once it reaches the
ACTIVE status, it can begin hosting game sessions.
To create a new fleet, provide a fleet name, an EC2 instance type, and a build ID of the game build to deploy. You can also configure the new fleet with the following settings: (1) a runtime configuration describing what server processes to run on each instance in the fleet (required to create fleet), (2) access permissions for inbound traffic, (3) fleet-wide game session protection, and (4) the location of default log files for GameLift to upload and store.
If the CreateFleet call is successful, Amazon GameLift performs the following tasks:
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Creates a fleet record and sets the status to NEW (followed by other statuses as the fleet is activated).
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Sets the fleet's capacity to 1 "desired", which causes GameLift to start one new EC2 instance.
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Starts launching server processes on the instance. If the fleet is configured to run multiple server processes per instance, GameLift staggers each launch by a few seconds.
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Begins writing events to the fleet event log, which can be accessed in the GameLift console.
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Sets the fleet's status to ACTIVE once one server process in the fleet is ready to host a game session.
After a fleet is created, use the following actions to change fleet properties and configuration:
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UpdateFleetAttributes -- Update fleet metadata, including name and description.
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UpdateFleetCapacity -- Increase or decrease the number of instances you want the fleet to maintain.
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UpdateFleetPortSettings -- Change the IP address and port ranges that allow access to incoming traffic.
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UpdateRuntimeConfiguration -- Change how server processes are launched in the fleet, including launch path, launch parameters, and the number of concurrent processes.
