gknoblauch/minecraft-server-deployment

Deploying a Minecraft Server in AWS using Terrafrom

minecraft-server-deployment

Deploy a Minecraft Server in AWS using Terrafrom

Only Pay while you Play!

• Uses an low cost AWS spot based instance
• Server doesn't run when you aren't playing!
• Lost cost of ~1 cent an hour!

Perfect for Playing with Friends!

• Scalable, robust infrastructure
• Share your personal minecraft IP address with your friends

Prerequisites

• 🍺 Brew
• ☁️ AWS Account

Install

Terraform

brew install terraform 

AWS Cli

brew install awscli

Configure

Ensure that the parameters are set in variables.tf

aws_region

• Set region we are deploying to
• Pick the region closest to you

availability_zone

• Set availability zone
• We have to set this due to a limitations in terraform
• hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#4869

instance_type

• Type of instance we will run on
• m5.large seems to be reasonable

time_limit

• Set how long you want to play
• Duration is in minutes

volume_id

• Volume ID where we will store the peristant data
• We will set this later

Deploy

Create an AWS Access key

• Set is as the default profile in ~/.aws/credentials

Create an AWS Key Pair

• Name it minecraft

Create a Volume

• 10GB should be fine
• This is where we will store all the persistant data volume_id
• Set the volume_id in the variables.tf file

Initalize Terraform

terraform init

Apply Terraform

terraform apply

The output will be an IP you can connect to in Minecraft

Destroy Terraform

terraform destroy

To ensure you don't encure additional costs, you can delete the volume that was created manually. This will delete all the data.