Valheim DigitalOcean Terraform Template

Provisions a DigitalOcean droplet to run a Valheim server.

Requirements

• Terraform
• A DigitalOcean personal access token in an environment variable
• An SSH key in your DigitalOcean account. Note that this by default will grant any SSH key under your account access to the droplet that this script provisions.

Steps

Create a Valheim config. Make sure to update the file to your preferences:

cp ./server/valheim.sample.env ./server/valheim.env

Variables

• region - For best performance, select one that is physically closest to you.
• droplet_size - This is the slug property coming from the API. The default is set based on this recommendation.

A full list of slugs are available from the /v2/sizes API:

curl -XGET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/sizes?per_page=100"

Finally, run terraform apply. You'll need to type "yes" when SSHing into your droplet for the first time.