ansorio is an ansible playbook and role for AWS-centric headless server setup of factorio server.
For me to practice ansible on something useful to me (and others)
This ansible role is intended for someone familiar with Ansible, AWS and Factorio, to quickly get an instance up-and-running.
Any and all contributions and PRs are welcome! I would love for this to become a community project.
This ansible playbook will successfully create a running Factorio server on an AWS EC2 spot instance. Savegames are backed up to a specified S3 bucket, and restored if a server is launched fresh with the same game name.
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Install the requirements:
sudo apt install libssl-devpip install -r requirements.txtWe recommend using a virtualenv. -
If you have not already, ensure that you have AWS CLI set up:
aws configureand enter the requested values. Recommended to create an IAM user specifically for this task. -
Configure the server and game settings
cp factorio-config.example.yml factorio-config.ymland edit the copied file, making any changes desired -
Run the playbook
ansible-playbook ec2-spot.ymlThis will create the following in AWS specifically for the Factorio server, in order to isolate from other AWS services you may already be running:- VPC, subnet, gateway, and route
- Security Group with access to Factorio server UDP port to everywhere, and SSH from the local IP
- keypair (from your local ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
- ec2 spot instance c4.large (at current spot request price, would be $18/mo for 24/7 usage) NOTE: this will incur costs in AWS for the EC2 instance, the S3 bucket, and other services; you are responsible for these costs
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Play Factorio The IP address of the factorio server will be shown in the ansible output. Connect to this in-game
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Terminate the server when done playing
ansible-playbook ec2-terminate.yml
- Management utilities: manual saves, map generation preview, web-based?
- Optional DNS registration for server (route53?)