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Configuring Ansible Tower to manage Windows

Configuring Ansible Tower to manage Windows - Ansible Tutorial

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Configuring Ansible Tower to manage Windows

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In this lesson, we will discuss how to manage Windows with AnsibleTower. So how do we set it up? Well, as you know, AnsibleTower can be used to manage many assets, including Windows. In fact, AnsibleTower is just a web front end that can do the same thing as AnsibleEngine. The only thing to be aware of is that the approach in AnsibleTower is sometimes a little bit different. First thing that you need to know is that there are no credentials that allow you to specify that WinRM needs to be used as a remote connection mechanism. So that means that you need the ordinary machine credentials and you need to tweak the connection a little bit by using inventory-based variables. That may sound surprising but inventory-based variables have and make their return, especially in Ansible tower environments, because it's a convenient way to specify how you want to reach out to manage assets with Ansible. So Ansible connection needs to be set to WinRM. That's for sure, because otherwise Ansible is…

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