Reduce your productivity by 500% by using Puppet to install Steam dedicated servers! This module will bootstrap the necessary components to allow you to install servers.
include steam::hlds
include steam::steamcmd
# LET THE PROCRASTINATION BEGIN
You'll need Nan Liu's glorious puppet-staging module to download the relevant files.
In addition, steam games can burn a HUGE amount of space. This fun little fact was discovered when the author tried installing Left 4 Dead 2 on his VPS to discover that it had completely filled his 20 GB drive.
This is non-trivial because the insane behavior of the steam command may
require multiple passes to actually do what you want.