GameServers on AWS

This repository is a template for provisioning your Cloud and Local environment using Terraform and Ansible.

How to Use

Docker and Docker Compose are needed. If you want to provision only local environments, that's all.

However, if you want to provision a cloud environment, you need permission that can administer for at least one cloud: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
And you need to set up the repository following steps.

Step 1. Write out your IDs and credentials in the .env file.

You should write your account IDs and credentials depending on your need, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, in the .env file as follows.

# UID=1234
# GID=1234
# DOCKER_GID=2345
PROJECT_UNIQUE_ID=my-unique-b78e
_TERRAFORM_BACKEND_TYPE=s3
TF_VAR_allowed_ipaddr_list=["203.0.113.0/24"]
#
# <AWS>
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKXXXXXXXX
AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=123456789012
# AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=AWxxxxxxxx00000000
# </AWS>

ℹ️ If you are using Linux, write out UID, GID, and GID for the docker group, into the .env file to let that as exported on Docker Compose as environment variables.

test $(uname -s) = 'Linux' && {
  echo -e "DOCKER_GID=$(getent group docker | cut -d : -f 3)"
  echo -e "GID=$(id -g)"
  echo -e "UID=$(id -u)"
} >> .env || :

ℹ️ In addition, if you use Google Cloud, you should place the key file for Google Cloud Service Account as config/credentials/google-cloud-keyfile.provisioning-owner.json.

Environment Variable Names

Environment variable names and uses are as follows.

Name	Required on Linux	Value
UID	Yes	This ID number is used as UID for your Docker user, so this ID becomes the owner of all files and directories created by the container.
GID	Yes	The same as the above UID.
DOCKER_GID	Yes	This ID number is used to provide permission to read and write your docker socket on your local machine from your container.

Name	Required with Terraform	Value
PROJECT_UNIQUE_ID	Yes	An ID to indicate your environment. The value is used for the name of the Object Storage bucket or Storage Account for Terraform backend.
_TERRAFORM_BACKEND_TYPE	Yes	Acceptable values are azurerm, gcs, s3, and none.
TF_VAR_allowed_ipaddr_list	no	IP address ranges you want access to your cloud environment.

AWS

Name	Required with AWS	Value
AWS_ACCOUNT_ID	Yes	A 12-digit AWS Account ID you want to provision. The S3 bucket is created in this account to store the tfstate file if you choose the S3 backend.
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	Yes	An AWS Access Key for the IAM user that is used to create the S3 bucket to store tfstate file and apply all in your AWS environment.
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	Yes
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION	no

Step 2. Define your service in the docker-compose.yml

You are able to update and define the provisioning service to your need in the docker-compose.yml.

services:
  provisioning:
    <<: *provisioning-base

Make sure your config.

docker compose config

Now, you are able to provision your environment as follows. 🎉

docker compose build

docker compose up

docker compose exec provisioning terraform apply

docker compose down

Step 3. Set secrets for GitHub Actions

The gh command helps set secrets.

gh secret set --app actions --env-file .env

cat config/credentials/google-cloud-keyfile.provisioning-owner.json\
 | gh secret set GOOGLE_SA_KEY --app=actions