Manage windows machine from Ansible

Overview of Ansible:

Ansible is open source and is easy to setup. Ansible can help you with configuration, task automate, application deployment. we can handle complex tasks with a tool which is simple to use.
 

Puppet or Chef use an agent on the remote host but ansible is agentless. Instead of agent, Ansible uses SSH which has to installed on all the systems you want to manage. The remote host also installed python because Ansible is written in Python. There is no server-client architecture require for Ansible.If we want to do something related with git then the remote host must be installed git. Ansible works on push mechanism.
Ansible is free but Ansible tower is paid.
 

Managing windows based instance is not easy for system admin and DevOps engineer.

Steps for managing Windows-based Instance:

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

  Administrator  OR  Admin power user
  PowerShell 4 or later version 
  Firewall Off or  allow tcp/udp port 5985 
  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"}

Note: Make allow rule in firewall for  5985  tcp/udp  or turn firewall.

Finally, making inventory file for Windows:

[root@vishnu Desktop]# vim /etc/ansible/hosts
  
  [windows]
  192.168.10.222
  [windows:vars]
   ansible_ssh_user=vishnu
   ansible_ssh_pass=123
   ansible_ssh_port=5985
   ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
   ansible_connection=winrm

To test use  win_ping module 
root@vishnu:~# ansible all -i /etc/ansible/windowsinventory  -m win_ping 
ok | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false, 
    "ping": "pong"
} 

Installation of ansible in linux
Install some software properties
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install software-properties-common.

Add repository for ubuntu
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible
Installtion on redhat/centos
yum install ansible