Ansible Role: Left 4 Dead 2

An Ansible role that installs and configures a Left 4 Dead 2 dedicated server.

The game server is downloaded thought Steam and exposed as a systemd service for easier management. Using this role it is possible to publish a minimalist server.

Automatic testing is disabled for this project as it is too long and expensive.

Requirements

An ansible role dedicated to the installation of SteamCMD such as ansible-steamcmd.

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default
`steamcmd_user`	User name for steamcmd	`steam`
`steamcmd_bin`	Path to the steamcmd executable	`/usr/games/steamcmd`
`left4dead2_motd`	HTML text for the server's MOTD	See below
`left4dead2_server_cfg`	Server configuration	See below
`left4dead2_port`	Network port	`27015`
`left4dead2_ip`	IP address to listen on	`0.0.0.0`
`left4dead2_host`	HTTP link to a display banner	none

`left4dead2_motd`

The MOTD is a welcome text displayed by the server during the first connexion of a player. It is formatted in HTML.

Default value:

  <html>
  <head>
    <title>Left 4 Dead 2</title>
  </head>
  <body scroll="no">
    <pre>Welcome.</pre>
  </body>
  </html>

`left4dead2_server_cfg`

The server.cfg file is the main configuration file for the server. It holds the server name, the administrator password as well as various rules.

There is no default value.

Example:

hostname "My Left 4 Dead 2 server"
rcon_password mypassword
motd_enabled 1
...

Dependencies

The acl package should be installed on the server.

Example Playbook

- hosts: game
  vars:
    left4dead2_server_cfg: |
      hostname "My Server"
      sv_password password
      rcon_password rconpassword
  pre_tasks:
    - package:
        name: acl
        state: present
  roles:
    - role: ansible-steamcmd
    - role: ansible-role-left4dead2

License

ISC

Contributing

Either send send GitHub pull requests or send patches on SourceHut.

Author Information

Tristan Le Guern tleguern@bouledef.eu

tleguern/ansible-role-left4dead2