ansible-steamcmd

Description

This Ansible role helps you install or update SteamCMD, a command-line version of Steam.

With this role, SteamCMD can be used by all users with sudo rights.
SteamCMD commands will always run as a system user named steam.
This same steam user should also run any game servers.

Get this role

To install the role, run:

ansible-galaxy install --roles-path ./roles/ siw36.ansible_steamcmd

Example Playbook

To install SteamCMD on all hosts in the game-servers group, use the following playbook:

- hosts: game-servers
  roles:
     - siw36.ansible-steamcmd

Usage after installation

To update SteamCMD and exit:

sudo steamcmd +quit

To install a game server, follow these steps:

sudo mkdir /home/steam/<game_name>
sudo chown steam:steam /home/steam/<game_name>
sudo steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir /home/steam/<game_name> +app_update <app_id> +quit

Requirements

The user on the remote host must be able to run sudo commands without needing to enter a password.

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Author Information

This role was created by Robin 'siw36' Klussmann in July 2019.