Valheim on AWS SAM

For more instructions and setup go to Valheim on AWS BlogPost

Setup

The following/requirements are needed.

• Access to AWS account with access credentials avaliable for use, AWS Docs
• VsCode installed
• NodeJs installed
• AWS Command Line Interface installed
• AWS SAM CLI installed
• Following github repo downloaded Valheim Server
• Discord WebHook

Setup

• Install required packages using npm install.

• Edit the configuration section in ./ci/scripts/deploy.sh

• Change the deployment region to preferred region, change server name (this will be a searchable item in Valheim server browser)

• Insert Discord WebHook

• Run ./ci/scripts/deploy.sh

• Goto secrets mananager and edit associated secret, will be the same as your server name

• To start server run aws lambda invoke --function-name ${serverName}-start /dev/stdout, will take a few minutes to boot up, you will recieve a discord notification on server starting, and when the server is ready to connect

• A Cloudwatch alarm is used to auto shutdown the server after 30 minutes of inactivity, a discord notification is sent. For more infomation visit the blog

• To manually stop the server run aws lambda invoke --function-name ${serverName}-stop /dev/stdout

• Connect to server using the serverName, searching in the valheim server logs

If however there is a issue, you can connect directly with an IP address. In AWS, got to : elastic container service/<serverName>/Tasks/<select first task>/netowrking/PublicIp

Further work is needed to automatically retrieve the IP address, this will be implemented alongside the discord bot.