lightsail-cs-source

Counter Strike Source Server

Create instance

Create AWS Lightsail instance via AWS Lightsail CLI

aws lightsail create-instances --instance-names "css-vm" --availability-zone eu-west-2a --blueprint-id centos_7_1901_01 --bundle-id medium_2_0 --user-data file://user-data.txt

You can find the script in /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt on the instance

Configure instance

Open ports

aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=27015,toPort=27015,protocol=TCP --instance-name css-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=27015,toPort=27015,protocol=UDP --instance-name css-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=1200,toPort=1200,protocol=TCP --instance-name css-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=27005,toPort=27005,protocol=UDP --instance-name css-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=27020,toPort=27020,protocol=UDP --instance-name css-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=26901,toPort=26901,protocol=UDP --instance-name css-vm

Assign static IP (optional)

Static IP addresses are free only while attached to an instance. You can manage five at no additional cost.

aws lightsail allocate-static-ip --static-ip-name css-vm-static-ip
aws lightsail attach-static-ip --static-ip-name css-vm-static-ip --instance-name css-vm

SSH

Download the key file here

chmod 600 LightsailDefaultKey-eu-west-2.pem 

Obtain the public IP

aws lightsail get-instance --instance-name css-vm | grep publicIpAddress
aws lightsail get-static-ip --static-ip-name css-vm-static-ip | grep ipAddress

Login to your instance

ssh -i LightsailDefaultKey-eu-central-1.pem  centos@PUBLIC_IP

View instances here

Counter-Strike Source server

Login with RCON privileges on your server:

1. Press the ~ key once your game loads up
2. In the dialog box that comes up type in rcon_password password
3. You are now logged into your server with rcon privileges

Sample RCON Commands

• Changing server password : rcon sv_password password
• Changing the map : rcon changelevel de_dust
• Kick a user : type rcon users to get IDs and then type rcon kick [userid]