Here are some further tips for people reading
* Use the yaml syntax when writting task rather than the key=value format,
this makes it a lot simpler to write Windows paths.
e.g for the first task do.
- name: Copy a windows file from control node to remote node
win_copy:
src: /etc/ansible/winFiles/getFileVersion.exe
dest: C:\Temp\
* Use backslashes for the Windows paths, if you use the yaml syntax, you
only need to escape them when using double quote ""
e.g all of the below lead to the same value.
- some_module:
path: C:\temp
quoted_path: 'C:\temp'
double_quoted_path: "C:\\temp"
* Avoid using the raw module, use win_command or win_shell instead, you
can't use become or environment variables with raw
* Use win_command when you are running an executable, avoid using this
when running shell commands like dir, del or PowerShell cmdlets like
New-Item, Copy-Item and so on
* Use win_shell when you are running shell commands or powershell
cmdlets, avoid using this to run executables as you need to deal with shell
escaping for complex arguments
* For tasks that give you an access is denied, use become to run it like it
would locally (not experimental as of the 2.5 release)
# this does not work and leads to an access is denied error
- name: upgrade powershell
win_chocoletey:
name: poweshell
state: latest
# when using become this is no longer an issue
- name: upgrade powershell
win_chocolatey:
name: powershell
state: latest
become: yes
become_method: runas
become_user: SYSTEM
* If there is not an Windows module to complete a task you are looking for,
look to see if there is an DSC resource instead (PowerShell v5 or newer is
required)
e.g. to manage Hyper-V you can use the DSC resource like so
- name: install Hyper-V DSC resource
win_psmodule:
name: xHyper-V
state: present
- name: create Hyper-V VM
win_dsc:
resource_name: xVMHyperv # the DSC module to use
# the below parameters are all the DSC parameters to set
Ensure: present
Name: HyperVHost
VhdPath: C:\temp\vm.vhd
StartupMemory: 6291456000
Generation: 2
ProcessorCount: 2
There are numerous other things that are good to know but you are probably
best looking at the new documentation for Windows here
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/windows.html.
Thanks
Jordan
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