Ansible role for deploy self-hosted vanilla minecraft server

This Ansible role deploy self-hosted minecraft server with minecraft-client-rs for control.

System requirements

So to run the playbook you will need:

• Ansible 2.12 on management node
• Alpine Linux >= 3.17 with python3 installed on managed node

If you don't want to use compiled minecraft-cli binary, you can compile it yourself from the project sources (minecraft-client-rs) and put it to role files.

How to use it

Create the playbook minecraft.yaml like below and override some variables

- hosts: minecraft.your-domain.local
  roles:
    - minecraft
  become: True
  become_method: su
  vars:
      #CHANGE_THIS_PASSWORDS
    - minecraft_rcon_pass: rc0n_Pas$w0rd

And run this playbook with ansible-playbook

user@host:~$ ansible-playbook minecraft.yaml

Default vars

• minecraft_path — path to server files
• minecraft_user — user which will run server
• minecraft_group — group which will run serve
• minecraft_jvm_max_ram — max RAM size in MB which will be used by JVM
• minecraft_jvm_init_ram — start RAM size in MB which will be used by JVM
• minecraft_jvm_extra_opts — extra options to JVM
• minecraft_server_url — URL to server jar-file
• minecraft_server_ip — server IP
• minecraft_rcon_port — RCON port
• minecraft_rcon_pass — RCON password
• minecraft_minecraft_cli_path — path to minecraft-cli binary
• minecraft_server_shutdown_message — notification before server shutdown
• minecraft_server_shutdown_delay — delay before server shutdown
• minecraft_eula — accept EULA, default false