Thanks for those resources, but I already have Ansible set up that I can 
communicate with a windows server using windows specific modules. The 
general question was whether those were the only modules that are useable 
with windows besides "script" and a few others, and whether for most 
functionality you basically just had to write powershell scripts.


On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 6:35:54 PM UTC-4, pixel fairy wrote:
>
> use on windows is described here 
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html
>
> list of windows modules here, 
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_windows_modules.html
>
> workaround for a current winrm bug here, 
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10294#issuecomment-93629047
>
> that workaround will work for ansible-playbook. to enable the 'ansible' 
> command itself, put these lines in your ansible.cfg
> bin_ansible_callbacks = True
> callback_plugins = path/to/fix-ssl.py
>
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 2:24:21 PM UTC-7, Joshua Adelman wrote:
>>
>> I started playing around with Ansible (1.9.2) today for the first time 
>> (first time using any software in this category before), with the goal of 
>> running a number of deploy steps on a Windows machine. I went through the 
>> setup instructions and I believe I have everything configured properly, 
>> such that I can run playbooks with tasks based on windows-specific modules 
>> (win_ping, win_stat, etc). 
>>
>> After convincing myself that I could run those basic commands, I wanted 
>> to try to clone a git repo to the remote Windows machine using the git 
>> module, but kept on getting error messages like:
>>
>> Module command not found in configured module paths.  Additionally, core 
>>> modules are missing.
>>
>>
>> I think this warning is specious, since I can run basically the same git 
>> task locally on my mac through ansible using a modified playbook. It then 
>> dawned on me that perhaps none of the standard core modules are actually 
>> supported on windows. Reading through the windows intro in the docs (
>> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html) again, I realized 
>> that the "What modules are available" section is actually a bit vague. 
>>
>> I was hoping someone could clarify, whether it's the case that if a 
>> module isn't specifically a windows module, then basically it doesn't work 
>> on windows targets. In that case, am I correct in my understanding that the 
>> only mode of executing custom tasks on windows targets is to do it via 
>> powershell scripts (using the "script" module)?
>>
>> Any insight from more experienced users would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>

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