This role installs vanilla Minecraft and configures it to run under Supervisor.

This role supports Debian and Debian-based distributions (e.g., Ubuntu).

The following variable defaults are defined in defaults/main.yml.

• minecraft_version

  Minecraft version to install (default: 1.8)

• minecraft_url

  Minecraft download URL (default: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions)

• minecraft_user

  system user Minecraft runs as (default: minecraft)

• minecraft_group

  system group Minecraft runs as (default: minecraft)

• minecraft_home

  directory to install Minecraft to (default: /srv/minecraft)

• minecraft_max_memory

  Java max memory (-Xmx) to allocate (default: 1024M)

• minecraft_initial_memory

  Java initial memory (-Xms) to allocate (default: 1024M)

• minecraft_supervisor_name

  Supervisor program name (default: minecraft)

• minecraft_whitelist

  list of Minecraft usernames to whitelist (default: [])

• minecraft_ops

  list of Minecraft usernames to make server ops (default: [])

• minecraft_banned_players

  list of Minecraft usernames to ban (default: [])

• minecraft_banned_ips

  list of IP addresses to ban (default: [])

- hosts: minecraft
  roles:
     - { role: benwebber.minecraft, minecraft_whitelist: ["jeb_", "dinnerbone"]}

Pull requests are welcome. Among other features, this role lacks support for:

• non-Debian operating systems
• custom Minecraft servers

This role includes a Vagrantfile to set up the development/testing environment using Vagrant.

Apache 2.0

To automate the installation, this role automatically accepts the Minecraft EULA. Be aware that by using this role, you implicitly accept the same EULA.