Ansible Role: terraria_server

An ansible role to automate deployment of Terraria on linux hosts

Configures:

• a service user
• start scripts (executed in a screen session)
• save scripts (executed every 30 minutes)
• backups (rotated every 720 minutes by default)

Requirements

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• Linux target (this has been tested against Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
• Ansible version 2.4.2.0 (others may work, but this version was used for testing)

Role Variables

Minimum Required Variables

You must define the version to deploy as this will obtained from the server file mirror.

terraria_version: 1353

Common Variables

Check out the Getting Started page for Terraria server-specific variables for a common use case (single server, single instance)

All Variables

Documentation on all variables can be found in the wiki

Example Playbook

Calling the role with minimum required terraria_version and a few configured values, relying on defaults for everything else.

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- hosts: servers
  roles:
  - role: terraria_server
    terraria_version: 1353
    world_name: "WorldOne"
    server_port: 7777