An automation of the Left 4 Dead 2 Dedicated Server to a Linux server using Jenkins
Node Preparation
Using Ansible
Create an inventory.ini file for the node
[l4d2servers]
10.0.0.40
Create an SSH key, then copy the public key to the authorized keys of the server
ssh-keygen -t rsa -a 4096 -C "l4d2server" -f $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa_l4d2
cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa_l4d2.pub
Run playbook
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini playbook.yml --key-file=~/.ssh/id_rsa_l4d2 -vv
Manual
On the remote host you need to install:
- Wine stable (From WineHQ)
- Zip and Unzip
- libarchive-tools
- Xvfb
- PM2
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install wget unzip libarchive-tools xvfb curl
Environments
You need to create environment variables, name it .game.env
export DIR_WINE="/wine"
export DIR_STEAMCMD="/wine/drive_c/SteamCMD"
export DIR_SERVER="/wine/drive_c/l4d2server"
export WINEPREFIX=$DIR_WINE