raykrueger/cdk-valheim-server
This is an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct library to run a Valheim dedicated server in AWS Fargate on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
AWS Costs will apply! This thing won't run for free. See Costs for more information.
Summary
This CDK Construct will deploy Valheim using the raykrueger/valheim Docker container. The container is deployed to an Amazon ECS Cluster, running on AWS Fargate. The game world is persisted to Amazon Elastic File System. The game server is exposed to the internet via a Network Load Balancer.
The server should run with pretty high resilliency. Given that the world is saved to an EFS file system, and the ECS Cluster is running across multipe availability zones, the server can die in one Availability Zone and come up in another with a low risk of loss. This is a beta game, and stuff happens, so you may want to consider enabling AWS Backup for your EFS filesystem.
Sample Application
This is the basic CDK Application needed to run the cdk-valheim-server
construct. The easiest way to get started would be to use projen, npx projen new awscdk-app-ts. You'll need NodeJS installed the AWS
CLI more than likely.
The default properties for the ValheimServer construct mean it will create a
VPC to run everything, and it will generate a random password to access the
server. The server password will be stored in AWS Secrets
Manager under the name
ValheimServerPassword. This can be retrived from the AWS Console, or from
the cli using aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id ValheimServerPassword.
import { App, Construct, Stack, StackProps } from '@aws-cdk/core';
import {ValheimServer} from '@raykrueger/cdk-valheim-server';
export class MyStack extends Stack {
constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: StackProps = {}) {
super(scope, id, props);
new ValheimServer(this, 'Valheim');
}
}
const devEnv = {
account: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT,
region: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_REGION,
};
const app = new App();
new MyStack(app, 'Valheim', { env: devEnv });
app.synth();Costs
See AWS Fargate Pricing for cost details in your region. The default confugration deploys 1vcpu and 8gb of memory. In addtion, you will incur costs for EFS and some amount of network transfer. Your mileage may vary.
I was here
Note that I built this in my free time. This has nothing to do with Iron Gate AB, Coffee Stain Publishing, or my employer.
Enjoy! -Ray