On-demand, serverless Valheim server setup with AWS CDK, Discord Interactions and GitLab CI

• valheim-cdk-discord-interactions

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Here's a link to the GitLab repo I'll be referencing in this article: https://gitlab.com/briancaffey/valheim-cdk-discord-interactions

• cdk-valheim

  3 25 1.5 TypeScript

  A high level CDK construct of Valheim dedicated server.

The best part of CDK is that it enables the creation high-level, reusable constructs that can be published to software registries like npm and PyPI. Developers can import and use these constructs in their own CDK code. A quick google search for "cdk valheim" turned up a few results. cdk-valheim seems like the best option for what I was looking for. This project uses ECS, a container orchestration tool from AWS that I have experience using with web applications and EFS for persistent file storage. Although it is written in Typescript, I can still use the construct in my preferred programming language (Python) without any extra effort or configuration. This is thanks to the jsii. From https://github.com/aws/jsii:

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• discord-interactions-python

  2 98 0.0 Python

  Useful tools for building interactions in Python

  

When we add this URL in the application settings, Discord will make sure that our endpoint is properly verifying the request based on its headers. Check out this function to see how it works:

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