Ansible

Install and Use

Using apt and older version

sudo apt install ansible sshpass

python3 -m venv venv
source ansible/bin/activate
# pip install -U pip
pip install ansible pywinrm

inventory.yaml all:

 vars:
   ansible_user: 
   ansible_password: 

windows:

 hosts:
   winhost.example.com:
 vars:
   ansible_connection: winrm
   ansible_port: 5985
   ansible_winrm_scheme: http  # Recommend https if possible
   ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm
   ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore  # Not recommended

linux:

 hosts:
   linuxhost.example.com:
 vars:
   ansible_connection: ssh

https://www.vgemba.net/ansible/Ansible-WinRM-Workgroup/

ansible 'Windows' -i inventory.txt -m win_shell -a 'choco upgrade Chocolatey' ansible 'Windows' -m win_shell -i inventory.txt -a 'pwd' ansible 'Linux' -i inventory.txt -a 'pwd'

<br />Run local script on remotes

ansible 'Windows' -m "script ./a.ps1" -i inventory.txt

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ansible myhost.example.com -a "pwd" --ask-pass

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# Use latest Python and Pip source

Or lets just use Python Source of latest, pip

!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e pipefail

version='3.9.6'

get() { sudo apt install -y build-essential checkinstall sudo apt install -y libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev \

 libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev

curl -LO https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tgz tar xzf Python-$version.tgz }

install() {

 cd Python-$version
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 #./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-optimizations
 sudo make altinstall

}

get install

<br />Install ansible in virtual env

python3.9 -m venv venv source ansible/bin/activate

pip install -U pip

pip install ansible pywinrm

<br /><br />inventory.toml

[Windows] winhost.example.com

[Windows:vars] ansible_user= ansible_password= ansible_connection=winrm

ansible_winrm_scheme=http

ansible_port=5986 ansible_winrm_scheme=https ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

[Linux] linuxhost.example.com

[Linux:vars] ansible_user= ansible_password= ansible_connection=ssh ```

Presentations

• https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/m/sr_rs/events/2019/cisco-connect/pdf/using_ansible_in_dc_automation_radenko_citakovic.pdf

https://www.vgemba.net/ansible/Ansible-WinRM-Workgroup/