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Provisioning your Windows from inside of WSL by Ansible

Ansible-WSL

Provisioning your Windows by Ansible from WSL

concept

Getting Started

Prerequisites

First, follow the Ansible offical setup of Windows hosts: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows.html

Next, get the WSL to run Ansible provisioning: https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6 (This project only supports Ubuntu). After Ubuntu setup in WSL, install Ansible by apt: apt install ansible.

Clone the source:

git clone https://github.com/Wintus/Ansible-WSL
cd Ansible-WSL

Setup

Edit the group_vars/ and/or host_vars/ to setup connection. For details, see the guide:

  • Windows: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_winrm.html#inventory-options
  • Ubuntu: refer localhost, connection=local

Samples

Windows group

host_vars/win.yml

ansible_host: localhost
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

# May also be passed on the command-line via --user
ansible_user:

# May also be supplied at runtime with --ask-pass
ansible_password:

WSL group

host_vars/ubuntu.yml

ansible_host: localhost

# May also be passed on the command-line via --user
ansible_user:

# May also be supplied at runtime with --ask-pass
ansible_password: