ansible-vagrant-windows-guest

Run ansible playbooks on a Windows target created using Vagrant.

Steps

Inspiration from https://medium.com/the-sysadmin/managing-windows-machines-with-ansible-60395445069f

Assumed that Vagrant and VirtualBox are already installed. If not, use the trusty ol' search engine!

1. Place your ansible role in roles\ (roles\some-ansible-role-name in this example).

2. Ensure main.yml references the role created in step #2

3. Create Windows box via vagrant up in directory next to Vagrantfile.

   The Vagrantfile points to: https://app.vagrantup.com/mwrock/boxes/Windows2012R2, created from the code here: https://github.com/mwrock/packer-templates. It is important to trust the source of the Vagrant box.

   This is set up to automatically run main.yml which points to your role (roles\some-ansible-role-name).

4. Log in to the Vagrant box (the password and username for the Vagrant box are both vagrant) and verify the results of your ansible!

Notes

• The Vagrantfile is hardcoded to a specific IP address. This matches the IP address specified in inventory_file. This was to get around an issue where Ansible was not able to detect that the guest was a Windows OS.