ansible

I recently setup Ansible to communicate with a Windows host. Unlike NIX-based hosts (Linux/Unix), which use SSH by default, Windows hosts are not a good fit for SSH configuration with Ansible. As per the Ansible documentation, “use this (SSH with Windows) feature at your own risk! Using SSH with Windows is experimental, the implementation may make backwards incompatible changes in feature releases. The server side components can be unreliable depending on the version that is installed”. So instead, I choose the WinRM setup. Here’s how I did it.