A Puppet module for minecraft servers

civilfritz-minecraft installs and manages a Minecraft server, and bundles just enough scripting to make it behave like a regular system service.

Examples

As usual, you are just a single include away from a working service.

include minecraft

Of course, you can also configure your server, using either hiera or class parameters.

class { 'minecraft':
    level_name => 'civilfritz',
    level_seed => 'civilfritz',
    motd       => 'civilfritz Minecraft server',
}

Server interaction

A common idiom in the Minecraft server world is to start the server in a screen session, creating a makeshift daemon with access to the console. civilfritz-minecraft avoids this by attaching the Minecraft server process to a named pipe. The Minecraft server is run directly by init, and can be stopped, started, and reloaded using the system service control mechanism.

# invoke-rc.d minecraft restart

Issue arbitrary commands to the server by writing into the named pipe.

$ echo "/say Hello, world!" >/var/run/minecraft/minecraft_server

Operating system support

Right now, civilfritz-minecraft only supports the Debian osfamily. Red Hat support should follow, but will likely require a separate init script.

Dependencies

civilfritz-minecraft uses wget to download minecraft_server.jar.

Package['wget'] -> Class['minecraft::install']

Contact

Jonathon Anderson

Support

Please log tickets and issues at GitHub.

License

Copyright (c) 2013, Jonathon Anderson All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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• Neither the name of civilfritz.net nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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