How to use

You need to have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed. Open a command shell in the directory of the cloned repository and run

vagrant up

This will create two VMs, one being the linux ansible control server (acs), the other a simple Windows Server Core (node).

Log on the acs with

vagrant ssh acs

To test if ansible can reach the Windows machine, run

./test-win.sh

You should get this response:

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

The Windows Server machine will run on IP-address 192.168.33.50. If you open a browser at http://192.168.33.50 you will get an error since IIS is not installed.

To install IIS and place a simple HTML page run

./install_iis.sh

If you now visit http://192.168.33.50, you will see a test page.

To remove IIS again run

./uninstall_iis.sh

More information

• Ansible documentation
• Ansible Galaxy, third party ansible roles