Ansible For Windows By Examples
50+ Automation Examples For Windows System Administrator And DevOps
Automating your Windows Target Nodes with Ansible enables you to achieve Infrastructure As Code (IaC). Using IaC you’re going to be able to automate your workflow, reduce human errors, and be faster about your critical business demands.
Beginners
Ansible provides various modules to manage your Windows target nodes for example interact with the file system, users and groups management, interact with registry, etc. I’ll show you step by step how to prepare your Ansible controller to interact with the Windows target nodes. This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some Windows users to start using Ansible.
- How to install Ansible in Windows 10 WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux
- How to install Ansible in Windows 11 WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Configure a Windows Host for Ansible - ansible winrm
- Ansible terminology - ansible vs ansible-core packages
- Test Windows host availability - Ansible module win_ping
Windows System Administrator
Windows System Administrator can be daunting, especially when you need to manage a large number of servers. Simple tasks such as rebooting, installing software, checking, adding, or removing keys from the registry could be extremely useful. You’re going to love the way to roll updates using Ansible.
- Reboot Windows hosts - Ansible module win_reboot
- Install Windows software - Ansible module win chocolatey
- Install Docker in Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_chocolatey
- Install Google Chrome in Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_chocolatey
- Check Registry .NET Framework version on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_reg_stat
- Add Windows Registry on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_regedit
- Rolling Update Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_updates
- Remove Windows Registry path or key on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_regedit
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Files Management
Files Management is the most tedious, repetitive, and human error-prone task that you could automate using Ansible.
- Check if a directory exists on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_stat
- Check if a file exists on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_stat
- Copy files from Windows remote hosts - Ansible module fetch
- Copy files to Windows remote hosts - Ansible module win_copy
- Create a directory on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_file
- Create an empty file in Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_file
- Download a file in Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_get_url
- Extract an archive in Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_unzip
- Backup With Robocopy on Windows - Ansible module win_robocopy
- Mount a Windows share in Linux SMB or CIFS - Ansible module mount.md
Users & Groups Management
Managing local Users and Groups is never been so easy using Ansible for your Windows target nodes.
- Change local user password on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_user
- Create a local user on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_user
- Remove a local user on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_user
- Create a local group on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_group
- Remove a local group on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_group
Troubleshoot
How to reproduce, troubleshoot, and deeply understand the most common Ansible fatal error in your Ansible automation journey.
- Ansible troubleshooting - Module Failure on Windows-target
- Ansible troubleshooting - Windows 10 Error 0x80370102 WSL
- Ansible troubleshooting - Windows 11 Error 0x80370102 WSL
Recap
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