Ansible Windows Host

Host

Anforderungen

Mindestens Windows

• Windows 7
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019

Ansible requires PowerShell 3.0 or newer and at least .NET 4.0 to be installed on the Windows host.

A WinRM listener should be created and activated. More details for this can be found below.

Install WinRM

• Ansible Team stellt Script für Installation zur Verfügung

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• Nach dem Erfolgreichen Durchlauf des Scriptes sollte WinRM auf dem Port 5986 laufen.

netstat -anp|findstr 5986

Ansible Rechner

Installation

• Installation des Python3 Packetes Pywinrm mit dem Packetmanager Pip

pip3 install pywinrm

• Kontrolle ob die Verbindung zum Windows Host funktioniert

nc -w 3 -v <remote windows server ip/hostname> 5986
(or)
telnet <remote windows server ip/hostname>:5986

Ansible Hosts Inventory File

Connect Parameter

• ansible_connection=winrm to define the connection is not SSH should use winrm
• ansible_user what ever the username you have created in the windows machine
• ansible_password password for that user ( the same one you use for RDP)
• ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation this is fine in DEV/TEST environment to tell ansible to ignore hostkey/server cert validation.

Beispiel Host File

[win]
192.9.12.122
[win:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm 
ansible_user=administrator 
ansible_password=r$eBQNgc5U&A2at8kDwpWo.KzLT5NvHd 
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

Links

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#host-variables

https://www.middlewareinventory.com/blog/how-to-use-ansible-with-windows-host-ansible-windows-example/

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_setup.html?extIdCarryOver=true&sc_cid=701f2000001OH7YAAW#host-requirements.