Installing Ansible with winrm module for Windows server automation

                    by Jephe Wu - http://linuxtechres.blogspot.com

Steps

set proxy for /etc/yum.conf

proxy= http://proxy.domain.com:8080

Disable redhat registration

[root@ansible01 pluginconf.d]# grep enabled /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf

enabled=0

Install EPEL release for yum repo

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Download and install ansible packages from EPEL together with local RHEL7 ISO mount

yum localinstall *  => install all below packages

Testing playbook

[root@ansible01 ~]# more hosts.ini
[win:vars]
ansible_user='DOMAIN\jephe'
ansible_password=xxxxxxxxxxx
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
#ansible_winrm_scheme=http
ansible_port=5985
#ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos
#ansible_winrm_transport=credssp
ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm

[win]
192.168.1.10

root@ansible01 ~]# ansible -i hosts.ini win  -m win_ping

192.168.1.10 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"

}

[root@ansible01 ~]# more win_play.yml
---

- name: test
  hosts: all
  become_method: runas

  tasks:

    - name: whoami

      win_shell: mkdir c:\tmp\jewu2

[root@ansible01 ~]# ansible-playbook -i hosts.ini win_play.yml

PLAY [test] ****************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *****************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.1.10]

TASK [whoami] **************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [192.168.1.10]

PLAY RECAP *****************************************************************************************************************************************

192.168.1.10              : ok=2    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0
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