Swapnil Dahiphale and Lokesh Jawane presented on using Ansible for Windows automation. They discussed how Ansible works using playbooks, roles, and variables to define automation tasks. They provided a use case where Ansible was used to automate the provisioning and configuration of VMs for a private cloud, including tasks like OS hardening, patching, and software installation. The presentation concluded with a demo of Ansible automation for Windows.

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Windows Automation with Ansible
Swapnil Dahiphale | Lokesh Jawane
9th
September 2017

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Who Am I?
- Sr. DevOps Engineer at Crevise Technologies
- Passionate about Learning and implementing disruptive innovations in
DevOps
@Swapnil2233
swapnil@crevise.com

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Who Am I?
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Crevise Technologies
@lokeshjawane
lokesh.jawane@crevise.com

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Agenda
- Automation
- Why Automation?
- Windows Automation and Challenges
- Automation tools
- Ansible
- Principles of Ansible and How it works
- User case
- Demo

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Automation
“Automation is the key to successful DevOps adoption”
- Change Management
- Provisioning
- Orchestration

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Change Management
- System State
- Define
- Enforce
- Example
- Apache web server version 2.4.x installed
- PHP 5.4.x installed
- Apache web server started
- Webadmin user exist with authorized key
- Deviation from the state would warrant a change
- Ansible operations are idempotent

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Provisioning
- Built on top of Automation and Change Management
- Preparing a system
- Installing, updating, configuring software
- Example:
- Start with basic installation of OS
- Update the operating system
- Install the web server
- Deploy the application
- Configure the application
- Start the web server

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Orchestration
- Orchestration is not just Automation
- Coordination between systems
- Order sensitive tasks
- Example:
- Remove web1 from LB
- Run tasks on web1
- Add web1 back to LB

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Why Automation?
- We all have to do more with less!
- Consistently deliver stable predictable environment
- Increase number of deployments, decrease time between deployments
- Deliver more secure environment
- Innovate faster

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Linux Vs Windows

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Windows Automation

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Windows Automation Challenges
- Legacy Security Models
- AD dependencies
- Reboot are a pain
- Typically heavy software packages
- We can bootstrap to a point

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Automation Tools

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You’ve probably already heard of
the most common tools

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Ansible

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Principles of Ansible
SIMPLE POWERFUL AGENTLESS
Human readable automation App deployment Agentless architecture
No special coding skills needed Configuration management Uses OpenSSH & WinRM
Tasks executed in order Workflow orchestration No agents to exploit or
update
Get productive quickly Orchestrate the app lifecycle More efficient & more
secure

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How Ansible Works?

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Ansible concepts: Playbooks
Defines sequences of tasks (Plays) to be executed on a group of hosts.
- Describes policies machine under management shall enforce
- Contains variables, tasks, handlers, files, templates and roles
- Expressed in YAML

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Ansible concepts: Playbooks
---
- win_get_url:
url: “{{ windows_server_iso }}”
dest: “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso”
force: yes
when: win_iso.stat.exists == false
- win_shell: ‘Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso”’
- win_shell: ‘(Get-DiskImage -ImagePath “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso” | Get-Volume).DriveLetter’
register: drive_letter
# - debug: var=drive_letter
- name: net-framework-35
win_feature:
name: NET-Framework-Core
source: ‘{{ drive_letter.stdout_lines[0] }}:sourcessxs’
state: present

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Ansible concepts: Playbooks
---
- win_get_url:
url: “{{ windows_server_iso }}”
dest: “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso”
force: yes
when: win_iso.stat.exists == false
- win_shell: ‘Mount-DiskImage -ImagePath “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso”’
- win_shell: ‘(Get-DiskImage -ImagePath “{{ windows_temp_path }}win20121.iso” | Get-Volume).DriveLetter’
register: drive_letter
# - debug: var=drive_letter
- name: net-framework-35
win_feature:
name: NET-Framework-Core
source: ‘{{ drive_letter.stdout_lines[0] }}:sourcessxs’
state: present
module
variable
List of plays
List of tasks

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Ansible concepts: Roles
Best way to organize your playbooks
- Structure content into related vars, tasks, files, handlers, etc.
- File structure for automated inclusion of role-specific content
- Roles can be shared and pulled from Ansible Galaxy, Github, etc.

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Ansible Tower
- Product by Red Hat
- Web based UI
- Cloud Integration (AWS, Azure, RackSpace)
- Compliance: Reporting + Auditing
- Every job run is logged and can be traced
- Role Based Access Control
- REST API
- Monitoring

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Preparation

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Setup Ansible on Control Node
$ add-apt-repository ppa:ansible
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install ansible
OR
$ pip install ansible

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Limitation for Control Node
- Control Node is recommended to be Linux.
- Or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#using-a-windows-control-machine

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Additional Setup for Controlling Windows
- To control Windows Slave with local User Account, no additional setup
required
- To control Windows Slave with AD Account, the easiest way is to setup
Kerberos
$ apt-get install python-dev libkrb5-dev krb5-user
$ pip install pywinrm[kerberos]
$ vim /etc/krb5.conf

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Additional Setup for the Windows Slave Nodes
The older Windows require extra setup to meet basic requirements
- Windows 7,8, Windows Server 2008 R2
- .Net Framework >= 4.0 (reboot required)
- PowerShell >=3.0 (reboot required)
- Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
- Apply Hotfix for Windows 7, 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012

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What About Linux Slave?
Nope…
There’s no prerequisites for linux slave, except login user account ;-)

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Use case
Setting up private cloud for an enterprise client.
- Challenges:
- Strict and close timelines, RHEL, Windows and all integration points automation, Security,
Compliance and testing in a restricted environment.
- Solution:
- Provisioning of VMs is done with CloudForms
- Configurations on RHEL and Windows VMs is done with Ansible
- Network related activities are automated with Ansible
- Integration with Hitachi Data Systems automated with Ansible

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Use case

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Use case
Things Automated
- OS Hardening
- Updates and patches
- Antivirus Configuration
- Joining VM to Active Directory
- Installation of softwares like MSSQL
- Windows clustering and MSSQL cluster confuguration
- ...

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Demo

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Ansible makes automating Windows easier!
Conclusion

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Questions?

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github.com/swapnildahiphale
linkedin.com/in/swapnil2233
@Swapnil2233
swapnil@crevise.com
Thank You!

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References
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#using-a-windows-control-machine
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_windows.html