Ansible for Windows - Bridging the Automation Divide!
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.
🔧 Break down the barriers to Windows automation with the “Ansible for Windows”! 🌐 Whether you’re a Windows sysadmin looking to streamline operations or a seasoned IT professional exploring cross-platform automation, this carefully curated collection of tutorials and guides is your roadmap to mastering Ansible in a Windows environment.
🖥️ Getting Started with Windows Automation: Start your journey with an introduction to Ansible and its seamless integration with Windows systems. Learn the basics of managing Windows servers and workstations using Ansible playbooks.
🚀 Windows Modules and Tasks: Explore the extensive library of Ansible modules tailored for Windows automation. Dive into practical examples of using Ansible tasks to perform common Windows management operations.
🌐 Configuring Windows Environments with Ansible: Discover how Ansible simplifies configuration management across your Windows infrastructure. Explore best practices for maintaining consistent configurations on Windows servers and clients.
🗄️ Managing Files and Permissions: Uncover Ansible’s capabilities in efficiently managing files and permissions on Windows systems. Learn how to orchestrate file transfers and ensure security compliance.
🔍 Windows Software Deployment: Streamline the deployment of software and applications on Windows platforms using Ansible. Gain insights into automating software updates, installations, and configurations.
🔑 Securing Windows Automation with Ansible Vault: Delve into Ansible Vault for secure storage of sensitive data, credentials, and secrets on Windows. Implement encryption and secure practices to fortify your automation workflows.
🔄 Windows Automation Best Practices: Master advanced techniques and best practices for efficient Windows automation. Explore tips for optimizing performance, handling errors, and scaling your automation efforts.
🛠️ Troubleshooting Windows Automation Tasks: Equip yourself with troubleshooting skills to address common challenges in Windows automation. Learn effective debugging techniques for Ansible playbooks on Windows.
Subscribe now and empower yourself with the skills to conquer Windows automation challenges using Ansible! Whether you’re automating routine tasks, managing configurations, or deploying software on Windows systems, this playlist is your gateway to a seamless and efficient Windows automation experience. Elevate your Windows automation game with Ansible today! 🖱️✨
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
- Ansible modules - win_command vs win_shell
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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.
- Create a local user on Windows-like systems - Ansible module win_user
- Change local user password 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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