Hetzner Game Server

About this project

Hello everyone, I decided to start a project to create dedicated servers for a few games I play on a single host on Hetzner. This code is all written by me.

This project is able to deploy:

Valheim
Terraria
Minecraft with Mods

Future updates will include:

V Rising
...

Requirements

Terraform
Hetzner API Token
To use this project, it is necessary to have a full verified hetzner account and an api key with read & write privileges

Optional

SSH Key
If you want to connect to the VM, you should provide a ssh key.

How it works

This project was built on two things: VM and Storage To build and destroy as you want, it is best practice to have two states. One for the storage and one for the VM. That's because if it all would be in a single state file, deletion would cause your save files to be deleted too. So in the end you would only delete the VM and don't touch the storage (unless you really want to destroy it too).

Set the shared.tfvars in the root module with your desired values. With that done you can start to deploy it.

Go into /storage and use the command:

terraform init
terraform apply -auto-approve -var-file=../shared.tfvars

After successful deployment of the storage you can deploy the VM. Go into /game and use the command:

terraform init
terraform apply -auto-approve -var-file=../shared.tfvars

Since this is Infrastructure as Code you can delete the VM if you don't play anymore, so you don't generate any costs.

terraform destroy -auto-approve -var-file=../shared.tfvars

Disclaimer