README
Prereqs
sudo dnf install ansible libselinux-python -y
pip install awscli --upgrade --user
pip install boto --upgrade --user
pip install boto3 --upgrade --user
Assumes you have setup AWS CLI.
aws configure
Create Infrastructure
ansible-playbook create.yml
Will create an inventory file .inventory for use with server setup. If this file is deleted it will be recreated.
Test Inventory File
ansible -i .inventory all -a "/bin/echo success"
Teardown Instance
Only tears down the instance & EIP at this time.
ansible-playbook teardown.yml
Setup Minecraft Server
ansible-playbook inventory.yml
ansible-playbook install.yml
Setup Minecraft Client
Installs mods, same as server, and creates /tmp/index.html with some server info.
ansible-playbook client.yml
Troubleshoot
EC2 Instance ID
If you need to recreate your server you'll probably hit a problem of reusing the same id for the ec2 instance. To get around this, edit var/minecraft.yml and change the value of ec2.instance.id to something that hasn't been used in the last 24 hours.
Whitelist
If you don't want random people joining your server you can turn on whitelist and add only friends. In the server as an op:
/whitelist on
/whitelist add <username>
SSH Known Hosts
With a dynamic IP address you'll have to manually cleanup known_hosts, ssh to the IP, or configure ssh to not check host IP. For example, in ~/.ssh/config:
Host <your minecraft server DDNS entry>
CheckHostIP no
User ec2-user
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_minecraft
UNREACHABLE!
Public IP has changed. Need to refresh your .inventory file:
ansible-playbook inventory.yml
Namecheap
Obviously can't give you my namecheap stuff. If you use namecheap you can leverage Dynamic DNS to update the instance when the public ip changes (i.e. it's started).
Before you create your EC2 instance, set minecraft.ec2.instance.assign_public_ip to yes and create vars/namecheap.yml with your data:
# vim: autoindent:expandtab:sw=2:ts=2
---
host: minecraft
domain: your-domain.com
password: your-namecheap-ddns-password
and run the playbooks
ansible-playbook create.yml
ansible-playbook install.yml
ansible-playbook namecheap.yml
ansible-playbook client.yml