Manage Windows like Linux with Ansible

[@bsanders1]

Life-saver, especially the first 13 min. I could not find the docs anywhere on how to do this one simple task: 'set up a windows box for ansible'. The rest of this talk was great too. Thank you so much!

[@linuslaikt]

Great presentation! and I love the poem at the ending! Applause!

[@alreid12345]

Great presentation very well delivered. Thanks for the content and to Red Hat for such a great community.

[@DaveTapley]

13:14 "this doesn't look too Windows-y, does it?" 👈 this is the content I came for 😆👏🏻

[@KrishnaChaitanyaCh]

Awesome presentation. I am very new to ansible, self learning on linux and aws. I have few hundred Windows that I need to manage and this presentation has given me enough confidence.

[@TonyaBrownSysAdmin]

Great insight into the possibilities of using Ansible in Win Environment

[@DaVince21]

I've only used Ansible on Linux and Mac so this was very insightful. Thanks tons!

[@rafikbahri5845]

*The poem* "I hate that you're not SSH, and the shell you called Power, I hate the way you install your apps, Windows Update makes me glower, I hate the way you must reboot and your web server IIS, I hate your complex registry, it always is a mess, I hate your junky services and your stupid domain auth, and managing your ACLs is sure to leave me rough, I hate that you are not linux that i have to learn you at all, but with ansible on my tool belt, i don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

[@saiii6907]

During the installation you have executed below commands CD C:\vagrant -- i am getting an error while doing this .\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 -- where can i get this please help me in this as my organisation have lots of windows servers and i am trying to automate this

[@picnicsinspace198]

great presentation. i am just learning ansible but this was a great video to open my eyes to what else it can do

[@sauvus]

Very well explained. Time to dig in!

[@benutza5362]

Awesome. I loved the presentation.

[@davidvincent314]

Great presentation. Good job !!!!

[@hiredevops1621]

Great stuff. Great presentation, very energetic!

[@JoseBarahonajrab66]

great stuff for admins doing some win things

[@daviderevelli9166]

Thanks for the amazing work you are doing... Great presentation!

[@-fqnz]

Looking at the presentation date makes me wonder why you did choose windows server 2012 not 2016 for presentation, especially win_updates feature... 🤔

[@baberaham]

My win_ping keeps throwing an error that says winrm or requests is not installed: No module named ''winrm'. I successfully downloaded pywin using pip2 install pywinrm, then pip3 install pywinrm, then I uninstalled them, created a venv and used pip install pywinrm - yet same error. Any ideas?

[@Zratchminisemporium]

Have you setup winrm on the windows machines? It needs to be set on the windows machine as well as on the Ansible Controller.

[@baberaham]

@@Zratchminisemporium I did. I eventually was able to call winrm but only inside a python virtual environment. Would you happen to know how to make a python module callable outside the venv?

[@teclipe]

@@baberaham probably Windows' winrm service is stopped. Start service Winrm and execute .ps1

[@baberaham]

​@@teclipe I don't think it had anything to do with my Windows side because I can run the winrm module via red hat linux terminal when I use a python virtual environment. I can ping, get patch updates, deploy patch updates, etc as long as I'm in the python env.

[@dinesha5674]

Well presented. Much useful!

[@maroz1154]

Cool presentation. Liked it.

[@leonardocastano]

Thank you very much, great presentation

[@ahmadmuadz7966]

I've tried the chocolatey module shown with Windows Server 2016, found that procexp is there once I reboot.

[@sureshsridhar1694]

Very nice ,. I am a beginner it's so good

[@dzmitryzimin259]

I've got: "msg": "ssl: the specified credentials were rejected by the server". What does it mean?

[@dieabe]

Does anyone knows where can i download the ps1 script to enable windows server managing.

[@romain_a]

raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1

[@sinistertalks6413]

@@romain_a Bro we can just create this powershell script for any windows box and will it work? Please confirm brother.

[@gpremchand]

github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1

[@barma1309]

Amazing!!!

[@sagarvispute]

Nice presentation

[@danieltyjewski9958]

Great!

[@vishuarekar]

gr8.. Thanks

[@nictanghe98]

ACL is better then linux permissions if propperly managed. and not touched by people that don't get it.

[@bhargavdheerajvlog]

can you sent me the configuration of windows client

[@arefghiasi4325]

If you hate Windows that much that you can't stop saying "love to hate" why you even bother yourself to manage Windows with your shiny Ansible?

[@flhoest]

He claims to be in love with Windows but his laptop runs Fedora ;)

[@dejfcold]

Red Hat made software on Red Hat issued HW. Makes sense to me.

[@kyryllvlasiuk]

More like Manage Windows from Linux. Doesn't run on Windows

[@jeffherdz]

I still hate windows.