managing Windows Instance via Ansible

Managing windows based instance is not easy for systemadmin and devops engineer

Step for managing Windows based Instance 

1.  Launch windows 7/8 OS or  windows 2008  / 2012 / 2016  server

Requirement :  

1.   Administrator  OR  Admin power user
2.   PowerShell 4 or later version 
3.   Firewall Off or  allow tcp/udp port 5985 
4.   setup  parameter 

Setting parameter .

there are two types of method .

i)  Kerberos based 

ii)  Plaintext based method 

Note :    setting  kerberos is not easy for everyone so we are using 

Open CMD and set two  things given below.

winrm  quickconfig

press y to start winrm

•  Nowt check  on cmd some variables 

winrm get   winrm/config/service

#  Note  set windows Auth and allowunecrypted parameter

. winrm set winrm/config/service/Auth  @{Basic="true"}

.  winrm set winrm/config/service  @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}

Important :   make allow rule in firewall for  5985  tcp/udp  or turn firewall

Finally Making  inventory file for Windows  :

[root@phoenix Desktop]# vim /etc/ansible/hosts

[windows]

192.168.10.222

[windows:vars]

ansible_ssh_user=Administrator

ansible_ssh_pass=redhat1234

ansible_ssh_port=5985

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

ansible_connection=winrm

To test use  win_ping module 

root@adhoc:~# ansible all -i /etc/ansible/windowsinventory  -m win_ping 

ok | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false, 

    "ping": "pong"

}

Note:  according to your requirement you can check modules 

"Enjoy your learning !!"