Hi all I'm doing some research about managing my Ubuntu servers using Ansible, but am using a Windows 10 myself and therefore would like to run Ansible on my Windows host. The servers to manage are Linux only for now, though. I've already read in the documentation that such a setup is not supported[1] and about usual workarounds using Cygwin[2] or the new WSL[3].
What I didn't find yet is thorough documentation about what exactly doesn't work or better why. People only seem to tell that it doesn't work and what they use instead, like the mentioned links above, but not the actual problems they ran into. Looking at e.g. what needs to be installed for Cygwin, at least many of the software requirements seem to be available natively under Windows, some of them like cURL, Python, SSH, OpenSSL etc. are already installed for me. So, is there any summary of what the key problems are running Ansible natively under Windows? Something like blog posts, open bugs in GitHub or such? I didn't find anything. Thanks! [1]: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_faq.html#can-ansible-run-on-windows [2]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/running-ansible-within-windows [3]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/using-ansible-through-windows-10s-subsystem-linux Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: [email protected] AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/236228375.20180827184548%40am-soft.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
