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Deekshith SN edited this page Aug 15, 2020 · 2 revisions

In ansible master

Ansible installation

In Centos (Ansible master) make sure ansible installed, if not follow below steps

  • yum update -y
  • sudo pip install ansible
  • verify the ansible installation by running ansible localhost -m ping

define the Windows host or system on a host file on the Ansible control node

  • vim /etc/ansible/hosts

  • copy below content to hosts file by changing required things as your (host ip, windows user_name and windows password)

    [winhost]
Ip_address  #change this to your windows ip 

[winhost:vars]
ansible_user=user_name     # windows username 
ansible_password=********   # windows password 
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

Unlike in Unix systems where Ansible uses SSH to communicate with remote hosts, with Windows it’s a different story altogether. To communicate with Windows hosts, you need to install Winrm.

  • sudo apt install python-pip
  • pip install pywinrm

Configuring Windows Node

prerequisite

  • Your Windows host system should be Windows 7 or later. For Servers, ensure that you are using Windows Server 2008 and later versions.
  • Ensure your system is running .NET Framework 4.0 and later.
  • Windows PowerShell should be Version 3.0 & later

Download the WinRM script on Windows 10 host

  • WinRM can be installed using a script that you can download from this https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1. Copy the entire script and paste it onto the notepad editor. Thereafter, ensure you save the WinRM script at the most convenient location. In our case, we have saved the file on the Desktop under the name ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1

  • Run the WinRM script on Windows 10 host

    Navigate to the script location and run it. In this case, we have navigated to the Desktop location where we saved the script. Next, proceed and execute the WinRM script on the WIndows host:

.\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1

Run-PowerShell-as-Administrator

  This takes about a minute and you should get the output shown below. The output shows that WinRM has successfully been installed.

set-up-WinRM-on-Windows10

Connecting to Windows Node from Ansible Control Node

  • To test connectivity to the Windows 10 host, run the command: ansible winhost -m win_ping

below should be the output

Ansible-ping-windows-host-machine

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_windows_modules.html

This should work!!!!!! 🤨 🤨

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