Windows Day 0 Provisioning Using Ansible Tower

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This video shows that we can make use of Ansible Tower to perform Day 0 provisioning of Windows Servers and get it to a state whereby it is ready for further configuration, usage.

All the relevant playbooks can be found at the following link,

The actual flow of the video is as follows:

2) The Engineer will log into Ansible Tower and key in the name of the VM and its corresponding IP address, along with the Ansible Tower inventory that we will be adding the newly created Windows VM to. User can also make changes to the default values for RAM, CPU, storage in the survey form.
3) As the VMs will be created in VMWare ESXi host, we can also expose more variables in the survey form, if need be
4) The workflow comprises of the following
i) Deploy Windows Server 2012r2 VM
ii) Add Windows VM to Tower Inventory
iii) Get Windows VM to join domain
iv) Install IIS
v) Install MS SQL 2014 Express

5) Ansible will set up the Windows VM in VMWare ESXi with the proper customization so that it is assigned with the proper IP address, hostname and domain. Ansible will wait for the Windows VM to go through all the required reboots before proceeding to add it to the Tower inventory.
6) The Windows VM will join the Windows domain as part of the workflow and will go through a reboot as that is required. This is done automatically by Ansible.
7) The workflow will proceed to install IIS on the Windows VM and we will be able to access it after that
8) Lastly, the workflow will install MS SQL Express 2014 on the Windows Server 2012r2
9) Email notifications are sent out as part of the workflow execution so that Operator will not need to spend time watching the workflow execution. He/She will be able to get updates from the email alerts.