Setup AWS image for running Minecraft Bedrock edition on Ubuntu

• download and install packer from https://www.packer.io/downloads
• Checkout code and save to local directory
• download latest Ubuntu edition from Minecraft https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock, save in this directory. E.g bedrock-server-1.16.40.02.zip
• Setup AWS account and create access/secret key
• run validation code

packer validate bedrock.json

• run build, this will overwrite any existing ami with this name

packer build \
    -var 'aws_access_key=<AWS_ACCESS_KEY>' \
    -var 'aws_secret_key=<AWS_SECRET_KEY>' \
    -var 'bedrock_zip_file=bedrock-server-1.16.40.02.zip' \
    bedrock.json

Optional parameters to packer are:

• aws_ami_name=minecraft-bedrock-1-16-40-02 , defaults to minecraft-bedrock
• ubuntu_ami_base_image_name=ubuntu/images/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server- , defaults to ubuntu/images/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-