TeamSpeak 3 Server

Role to deploy a TeamSpeak 3 server.
Inspired by dharmab/ansible-playbooks/roles/teamspeak.

This role defaults to setting up a basic TeamSpeak 3 Server without special configuration. It downloads, extracts, sets up and runs a TeamSpeak 3 Server without any bells and whistles. But in case you want to, you can have it configure TeamSpeak 3 Server for you in multiple ways (and more to come). The aim is to make this role usable for the simplest of deployments, e.g. "I just want a TeamSpeak 3 Server plain and simple", to more complex deployments making use of alternate ports, licenses and external databases.

Once installed with this role TeamSpeak 3 Servers can also be updated to newer versions using this role. By incrementing the TeamSpeak 3 version number, and assigning the appropriate SHA256 checksum string, this role will copy your currently installed TeamSpeak 3 server and update it to the new version.

The upgrade mechanism can also be used for restoring TeamSpeak 3 servers from a backup using the following steps:

1. Extract your old Teamspeak 3 server files to a directory called {teamspeak.home}/oldts/teamspeak3-server_linux_amd64/
2. Create the current symlink in {teamspeak.home} to point to oldts. For example: cd /opt/teamspeak && ln -s oldts current
3. Run this Ansible role and the updater mechanism should find it and use it.

Requirements

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.6. Tested on Ubuntu 20.04.4. Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.1.

Tested with Ansible [core 2.13.2]

Role Variables

For simple installations, the defaults do not need to be changed. But in case you want to or you need more complex deployment, here's an overview:

Basics

These variables define properties for the user thats going to run the TeamSpeak 3 Server, which version of TeamSpeak 3 Server will be installed and at what location on the disk.

Variable	Default	Description
teamspeak.user	teamspeak	User to run the TeamSpeak server.
teamspeak.comment	TeamSpeak 3 User	User comment field.
teamspeak.home	/opt/teamspeak	Home directory for the TeamSpeak user. Will also be used to install the TeamSpeak server in.
teamspeak.shell	/usr/sbin/nologin	Shell for the teamspeak user.
teamspeak.symlink	current	Name of symlink to point to current TeamSpeak 3 server directory.
teamspeak.version	see defaults/main.yml	Version of TeamSpeak 3 Server to download and install.
teamspeak.checksum	see defaults/main.yml	SHA256 checksum of archive of TeamSpeak 3 server version for verification purposes.
teamspeak.keep	3	Amount of TeamSpeak 3 server versions to keep installed, includes the currently installed version. A setting of "3" keeps the current and two previous version installed, which is the default. In case an upgrade goes wrong, you simply rewind the teamspeak.version and teamspeak.checksum to the older version and run the role again to downgrade back to a known good.

Further configuraton

To configure TeamSpeak 3 Server a INI-style configuration file is used. If you require detailed configuration, enable creation of such a file by setting the teamspeak_ini_enabled to yes. For example by defining it that way in host or group vars in your playbook. A INI file containing your configuration will be created.

Variable	Default	Description
teamspeak_ini_enabled	no	Set to yes if you want use the configuration options listed below. It will create INI-style configuration file for the TeamSpeak 3 Server to use.
teamspeak_ini_filename	ts3server.ini	Name of the INI-style configuration file.

License file

If you have a TeamSpeak 3 Server license, you can have this role install it for you. Place your license file called licensekey.dat in the files/ directory of this role. Tip: if you use Git, add that path to your .gitignore to make sure you do not push it somewhere by accident.

Variable	Default	Description
teamspeak_use_license	no	Set to yes to have your license set up.
teamspeak_license_srcfile	files/licensekey.dat	TeamSpeak 3 Server license file on Ansible host to copy to target. Default searches for the license file at files/licensekey.dat.
teamspeak_licensepath		Used to specify a directory where your license should be located on the target host. If a non-existent directory is specified it will be created for you. Make sure you enable the use of a INI configuration file, otherwise this option will be ineffective. The default is to leave this variable empty, which will place the license file in the same directory as the TeamSpeak 3 Server is installed in.

Network configuration

The network configuration block can be used to configure the TeamSpeak 3 Server as you please. Make sure to define the configuration block in full as it contains nested properties. Most reliable way would be to copy a block from the defaults/main.yml into your own definitions file and edit accordingly.

Description of the teamspeak_network configuration block and it's options:

Variable	Default	Description
teamspeak_network.voice	Empty	Contains nested properties of the voice server.
teamspeak_network.voice.default_port	9987	UDP port for voice clients to connect to.
teamspeak_network.voice.ip	0.0.0.0	IP address to listen on for incoming voice connections.
teamspeak_network.filetransfer	Empty	Contains nested properties of the file transfer server.
teamspeak_network.filetransfer.port	30033	TCP port to use for file transfers.
teamspeak_network.filetransfer.ip	0.0.0.0	IP address where file transfers are bound to.
teamspeak_network.query	Empty	Contains nested properties for the ServerQueries part of the server.
teamspeak_network.query.port	10011	TCP port used for ServerQuery connections.
teamspeak_network.query.ip	0.0.0.0	IP address where to listen for inbound ServerQuery connections.

Other options

Variable	Default	Description
teamspeak_ini_machine_id	Empty	Teamspeak server machine ID. Used for running provide multiple instances on the same database with a unique ID.
teamspeak_create_default_virtualserver	yes	Normally one virtual server is created automatically when the TeamSpeak 3 Server process is started. If you set this to no a virtual server will not be started upon startup and you would have to start one manually using the ServerQuery interface.

OS-dependent variables

Variables that differ across different Linux distributions have been set in vars/{debian,redhat}.yml:

Variable	Default	Description
Teamspeak server machine ID. Used for running provide multiple instances on the same database with a unique ID.	see vars/{debian,redhat}.yml	Path where systemd service files are installed.

Dependencies

rsync should be installed on the host to perform TeamSpeak 3 Server upgrades, used by the "synchronize" module.

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: ts3servers
  roles:
     - { role: ansible-teamspeak, tags: teamspeak }

License

MIT

Author Information

• Stefan Joosten <stefan•ɑƬ•sjoosten•ɖɵʈ•nl>
• Egbert Verhage <egbert•ɑƬ•eggiecode•ɖɵʈ•org>