Ansible - AWS Gaming PC

These scripts are provided without any warranty. Use them at your own risk!

Playbooks

Create

This playbook will spin up a small VPC with a subnet, security group and internet gateway and then launch a spot instance request.

The instance will have Chrome, Steam and Parsec installed on it. Parsec will be installed in shared user mode.

The instance will have a main volume for the OS and an extra volume intended for the games. The main volume is configured to be deleted on instance termination.

ansible-playbook -D create.yaml

Get Info

This playbook will print out the public DNS for the instance after it's running.

ansible-playbook -D getinfo.yaml

Stop

This playbook will stop the instance, snapshot the volumes and then delete them.

ansible-playbook -D stop.yaml

Start

This playbook will reattach the volumes from the snapshots created when it was stopped, start the instance and then delete the snapshots.

ansible-playbook -D start.yaml

Usage

You will need to have Ansible installed.

Modify the variables in vars/gaming.yaml according to your needs.

Create a variable file called vars/private.yaml and add the instance profile you want to use along with your home IP to that one. This IP will be added to the security group.

---
home_ip: 1.2.3.4/32
iam_instance_profile: arn:aws:iam::<account id>:instance-profile/<name>

Install the python requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install the ansible requirements.

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yaml

The script will use the credentials configured in your profile. Please ensure you are running these scripts in the correct account!