Deploy Minecraft, with Ansible

This is an Ansible playbook that:

1. create an instance of the desired type using OVH API;
2. install a Minecraft server on it, alongside a list of required plugins that can be installed either from Spigot (using Spiget), from a direct link to a JAR file, or from a repository that can be installed using mvn clean install;
3. start the server on the default port;
4. op listed players;
5. add a DNS record, so the server can be accessed.

The playbook is currently tided to the Zcraft DNS and OVH accounts but that may evolve in the future. There is not so much to change to have fully-configurable zone, most is already configurable anyway, and everything will eventually be added to the vault file.

Create a server

To create a server, clone the repository, then run:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --extra-vars="game=ktz dns=game-name" --ask-vault-pass

After a while, you'll be given the server IP and players will be able to join using game-name.games.zcraft.fr (or other domain if that was modified).

The game var is a configuration file stored in vars/games/<name>.yml, containing what need to be done on the server. See vars/games/ktz.yml for an example.

The dns var is the sub-domain of games.zcraft.fr that will be created for this game instance.

Destroy a server

This playbook cannot delete the server, nor the associated DNS records. You have to do that yourself at the end of the event, using the OVH Manager.