Minecraft server on AWS EC2 instance

Installing

Assuming user is ubuntu. Extract in /home/ubuntu/control

Setup partition on second volume

mkdir /home/ubuntu/minecraft
sudo gdisk /dev/nvme1n1
> n
> Enter
> Enter
> Enter
> w
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme1n1p1
sudo echo "/dev/nvme1n1p1 		/home/ubuntu/minecraft ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Install systemd services

mkdir -p /home/ubuntu/.config/systemd/user
ln -s /home/ubuntu/control/services/set_initial_ttl.service /home/ubuntu/.config/systemd/user/set_initial_ttl.service
ln -s /home/ubuntu/control/services/ensure_running.service /home/ubuntu/.config/systemd/user/ensure_running.service

systemctl --user enable set_initial_ttl
systemctl --user enable ensure_running
loginctl show-user ubuntu --property Linger

Setup user linger and crontab

loginctl enable-linger ubuntu
crontab /home/ubuntu/control/crontab

Install pip dependencies

sudo pip install -r /home/ubuntu/control/requirements.txt