CSGO dedicated server on Azure

Running a CSGO dedicated server on Azure using terraform with ansible and LinuxGSM

Initial Steps

• Install terraform(v1.1.7), azurecli(2.34.1)

• Azure login and copy subscription_id

  az login
  

• Create service principal

  MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" --scopes="/subscriptions/<subscription_id>"
  

• Populate secrets, create a file secrets.tfvars under azure folder

• Check azure for vm_size and storage_disk_type

   region = "japaneast"
   subscription_id = "<id>"
   client_id       = "<appid from service principal>"
   tenant_id       = "<tenant id from login>"
   resource_group_name = "RG_NAME"
   vm_size = "Standard_F4"
   storage_disk_type = "Standard_LRS"
   sv_password = "secret"
   rcon_password = "secret"
   gslt = "gslt from steam"
   client_secret = "<password from service principle>"

Terraform steps

terraform init
terraform plan -var-file="secrets.tfvars"
terraform apply -var-file="secrets.tfvars"

Ansible steps

• Once the server is provisioned, you can access it via ssh as below,

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa csgoserver@ipaddress_of_vm

• Below command will run the ansible playbook and create csgo server

ansible-pull -U https://github.com/anupvarghese/csgo-on-cloud.git -i 127.0.0.1 competitive.yml

Notes

This setup uses LinuxGSM to host csgo server.

Management of the game server can be found in these docs

If you want to deploy with changes that are in a branch and not master, try this - ansible-pull -U https://github.com/anupvarghese/csgo-on-cloud.git -C <your_branch_name> -i 127.0.0.1 competitive.yml