minecraft-server

CS312 Minecraft server automated deployment

Background:

We want to create a minecraft server that is basically automatically set up by our Ansible scripts and Docker. Our main goals are:

• Write provisioning for AWS.
• Create configuration and deployment scripts for a Minecraft server.

This will be done using Ansible to set up our AWS resources, then deploy a Minecraft docker image and use the minecraft.service file to set up automatic restarts.

Requirements:

• Ansible
• Docker
• apt
• SSH keys set up in AWS
• ~/.aws/credentials file with current login creds
• Minecraft security group setup in AWS

Broad overview of the different steps/stages of the pipeline:

AWS instance -> Runs Docker -> Dockcer runs Minecraft server -> minecraft systemd service file runs on container

Tutorial to Run the Code

Step 1: Provision Minecraft AWS instance

ansible-playbook provision_aws.yml

Step 2: Install and configure Docker

ansible-playbook -i /tmp/ansible-inventory/hosts configure_docker.yaml

Step 3: Start Minecraft

ansible-playbook -i /tmp/ansible-inventory/hosts run_minecraft.yaml

Step 4: Once the Minecraft server is running, connect to the instance using the public IP provided by the scripts.

Resources/Sources Used

• itzg/minecraft-server
• Several Reddit threads:
  • Reddit Thread 1
  • Reddit Thread 2
  • Stack Overflow Thread
• How to setup Minecraft server on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux
• Connect to a Linux instance