Quick overview of using Ansible to manage Windows machines.

1. Ansible Configuring Windows
Joe Gardner
@joehack3r
Demo material and slides with notes available on github:
https://github.com/joehack3r/ansible-demo

2. Warning
 Slides created in < 10 minutes
 All text; no pictures
 I’m more of a Unix guy :-p

3. Credentials
 10+ years Systems Management experience
 Manage Unix and Windows Servers
 AWS since 2012
 Ansible since 2013

4. Demo Setup
 AWS & VPC
 SSH Key in S3 bucket
 CloudFormation
 For VPC
 For Ansible Control

5. Stop!
Demo Time

6. What Works
 win_ping
 Makes sure you can connect and run modules
 win_get_url
 Easy way to download files
 win_msi
 Install Windows packages

7. What Works
 win_user
 Create and modify user
 win_feature
 Install Windows feature and dependencies
 script
 Copy and run script on remote Windows machine

8. What I Would Develop
 Define variables in playbook
 ansible_ssh_user
 ansible_ssh_pass
 ec2-facts
 command/shell

9. What I Would Develop
 win_feature
 idempotency

10. What I Learned
 Windows support is "beta"
 Expect:
issues
missing (key) features
things work one minute and not the next (and vice-versa)

11. What I Learned
 It's Windows
 Like Unix, it has its own peccadilloes

12. Questions?