Project Zomboid Template server (WIP)

TODO: terraform: Move S3 to terraform On Delete

Ansible: Make pzuser on Ansible Add AWSCLI on Ansible change ec2 default user to pzuser

Misc: Add prometheus for monitoring Maybe using EventBridge to decouple on deletion       

Make your own project zomboid server on AWS, fully customizable!, The repository uses Spot Instances to save as much money possible, S3 to save files and Global Accelerator for less latency.

This repository uses:

• AWS (ec2,s3,Cloud Accelerator(optional))
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Vagrant

Steps to recreate:

Before running the ansible files

Create your own ansible inventory it should look something like this

pzserver ansible_host=
[pzserver]
pzserver ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3

[pzserver:vars] 
ansible_user=pzuser
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=zomboid.pem

Add your pem key and rename it zomboid.pem make sure it's for your pzuser, otherswise change ansible_user to ubuntu/centos/ec2-user, whatever OS you are using.

Optionally you can use the Vagrantfile, to recreate locally and run the ansible first to make sure everthing works.

Before running the Terraform files

• Connect to the instance and create the user pzuser and make sure is the cloud init default user
• Get the IP of the connection and run the Ansible file remotely. (Make sure you have the zomboid.pem for the pzuser not the original one.
• If you have already a Zomboid folder (with the server configuration) upload it from your s3
• Make sure you can run seamlessly the zomboid server
• Stop the Instance
• Create an AMI from it
• Make sure you change the variables suited for your region,spot price, and subregion in the terraform file
• Create a file named secrets.tf like this:

variable "instance_ami" { type = string default = "" description = "Your custom PZ instance" sensitive = true }

variable "bucket_name" { type = string default = "" sensitive = true }

Now all you have to do is terraform apply and terraform destroy whenever you want to run your server!