- 2023-02-01 Deploy SmartFox Server using Ansible - Part 3
Previously we adapted our playbook to configure more aspects of SmartFox like ports, copying Zone files and extensions. In this post, let's make the playbook support more platforms, namely RedHat based systems, like AlmaLinux, and ARM CPU systems, like AWS Graviton. We will also fix an issue where SmartFox archive...
- 2023-01-20 Deploy SmartFox Server using Ansible - Part 2
In the previous post, we created a playbook with which we could deploy SmartFox server on a Debian/Ubuntu machine. It contained basic configuration like admin username, password and SSL certificate parameters. In this part, we are going to extend the playbook and make it more configurable. If you didn't...
- 2023-01-02 Deploy SmartFox Server using Ansible - Part 1
SmartFoxServer is a software that acts as a framework for building backend for online games. It lets game developers to focus on the gameplay, while SmartFox takes care of connection, authentication, room management, in-game chat, etc. It is very simple to install and configure. I shouldn't need to introduce Ansible...
- 2023-01-01 Scared of terraform apply? Use AWS Organizations!
So you got your new job as a sole DevOps Engineer. Congratulations! For the first months your roam around your company's AWS. You see all the manually created EC2 instances, RDS databases, Elastic Load Balancers, etc. Well, they say a better practice is to use Infrastructure as Code than to...