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I am using Ansible for some infrastructure management problem for my project. I achieved this task using a Linux client like say to copy a bin file from Ansible server and install it on a client machine. This involves tasks in my playbooks using normal Linux commands like ssh, scp, ./bin etc.,
Now I want to achieve the same in a windows client. I couldn't find any good documentation to try it out. If anyone of you have tried using Ansible with Windows client then it would be great if you could share the procedures or prototype or any piece of information to start with and progress further on my problem.
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Ansible uses SSH protocol to connect to servers and run tasks.
Can Ansible run on Windows? No, Ansible can only manage Windows hosts. Ansible cannot run on a Windows host natively, though it can run under the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Can Ansible run on Windows? ¶ No, Ansible cannot run on a Windows host and can only manage Windows hosts, but Ansible can be run under the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The Windows Subsystem for Linux is not supported by Microsoft or Ansible and should not be used for production systems.
There's no built-in Windows support for Ansible today. If you search the mailing list, you'll find some references to people having some minimal success with things like CygWin. You should probably check out the mailing list and stay tuned.
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Starting in version 1.7, Ansible also contains support for managing Windows machines. This uses native powershell remoting, rather than SSH. See the Ansible documentation website for details on Windows support for Ansible.
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