# CentOS 7 | Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.

# # CentOS 7

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing Pterodactyl Wings v1.X on CentOS 7.

- Install Dependencies
- Installing Wings

## # Install Dependencies

    ## Install yum tools
    yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

    ## Add the docker repo
    yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

    ## Install docker
    yum install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli

    ## Enable docker service
    systemctl enable --now docker

    # Configure firewall
    firewall-cmd --add-port 8080/tcp --permanent
    firewall-cmd --add-port 2022/tcp --permanent
    firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --change-interface=docker0
    firewall-cmd --zone=trusted --add-masquerade --permanent
    firewall-cmd --reload

## # Installing Wings

Great, now all of the dependencies and firewall rules have been dealt with. From here follow the official Wings installation documentation.

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