Manage Windows like Linux with Ansible

Few questions induce fear into the heart of a Linux admin more than, "Hey, can you manage these Windows servers?"

In this session, we'll show how Ansible does simple, secure, and agentless Windows management with the exact same tools, language, and philosophy used for Linux hosts. You'll never have to log in to a Windows server again.

[bsanders]

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!

[DaveTapley]

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

[alreid]

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

[DaVince]

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

[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

[rafikbahri]

*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."

[daviderevelli]

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

[picnicsinspace]

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

[hiredevops]

Great stuff. Great presentation, very energetic!

[leonardocastano]

Thank you very much, great presentation

[JoseBarahonajrab]

great stuff for admins doing some win things

[sureshsridhar]

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

[ahmadmuadz]

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

[-fqnz]

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

[saiii]

During the installation you have executed below commands
CD C:\vagrant -- i am getting an error while doing this
-- 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

[dzmitryzimin]

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.

[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?