Ansible with Windows
- Lets see how to make ansible work with windows servers
- Ansible winRM protocol to establish connection with Windows Hosts
- Ansible requires Powershell 3.0 or newer and atleast .net 4.0
- Install ansible on the control node
- Login into the Windows Node
- Launch Powershell as Admin and try to execute the following steps
$url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1"
$file = "$env:temp\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1"
(New-Object -TypeName System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($url,$file)
- Now on the ansible control node install pywinrm
pip install pywinrm
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Now created inventory as shown below and execute the win_ping
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For working with windows server Refer Here for the windows modules
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Refer Here for the sample playbook created to enable windows server
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Refer Here for the corrected playbook
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To Practice more on Ansible Deploy the following applications by writing ansible playbooks & roles
- nopcommerce Refer Here
- openmrs Enterprise Refer Here
- shopizer Refer Here
- OrangeHRM Refer Here
