Minecraft Ansible

Ansible configuration for a Minecraft server

Stealing everything from here: https://github.com/chadgeary/minecraft

Setup

Install Ansible

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ansible

Deploy

Make sure host_vars/aws has the correct server info and then run:

ansible-playbook -i hosts minecraft.yml

Maintenance

Update and restart service:

ansible-playbook -i hosts minecraft.yml --extra-vars "mc_update=True"

Notes

The get_url ansible task isn't working for some reason. It seems like the Minecraft download page is blocking script access? I can instead go to the page in a browser and copy the direct download link manually. Then run the following on the server:

sudo curl <url> --output /opt/minecraft/server/server.jar