And when you need to roll this out across your team, red hat ansible tower works out of the box with ansible s windows support. Share your work with a global community of ansible users and contributors. You can manually install this module on windows 7 and server 2008 r2 by. Ive been advocating for block loop support as a cleaner solution to exactly this issue since before it shipped, but i dont have the bandwidth to implement myself right. Ansible users have written modules for managing filesystem acls, managing windows firewall, and managing hostname and domain membership, and more. First of all, you must ensure to keep all your windows servers updated. I am trying to build an ansible playbook to configure a ubuntu vagrant box.
I am using ansible ansible tower and would like to determine what facts are available on my windows host. Below is the playbook i use for updating my amazon linux servers. Patching windows servers with ansible virtual to the core. Ansible update and reboot if required amazon linux. In these cases, if the install has been verified to work locally the recommended method is to use become. Ansible will automatically reboot the remote host if it is required and continue to install updates after the reboot. After that, we make sure the service is enabled on boot and started. This will reboot the servers if they receive an updated kernel.
The ansible modules allow administrators to control downloading and installing windows updates on their windows servers. Any arguments the installer needs to either install or uninstall the package. Refrain from asking for this feature, as it limits what technologies, features, and code we can use in the main project in the future. Ansible role for controlling reboot on windows nodes. Ansible reboot server using playbook and wait for come. Reboot and wait for reboot to complete in ansible playbook may 24, 2018 september 2018 update. Where ansible users and contributors come together to collaborate. Ansible includes powerful modules out of the box that provide the mechanisms to install windows updates on your windows servers.
Here is the current playbook per the assistance given. Note running ansible from a windows control machine is not a goal of the project. If the path is on a network share and the current winrm transport doesnt. Using ansible and windows when using ansible to manage windows, many of the syntax and rules that apply for unixlinux hosts also apply to windows, but there are still some differences when it comes to components like path separators and osspecific tasks. Scripts that are useful for using ansible with windows not affiliated with ansible in any way jborean93ansible windows. One of the information is a pending reboot condition. Ansible is quickly becoming the dominant devops platform for automating software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment in a heterogeneous datacenter and hybrid cloud environment.
Ansible provides useful tools which we can use to for various purposes. This vagrantfile will download an ubuntu box on virtualbox, call it ansible, assign a private ip, and give it 2gb of ram. They download windows updates from the configured location on the server either from. Welcome to another installment of our windowscentric getting started series. This can be fixed by changing the startup type to automatic delayed start. Ansible has facilities to integrate and manage various technologies including microsoft windows, systems with rest api support and of course linux. Packages will be temporarily downloaded or copied locally when path is a network location and credential delegation is not set, or path is a url and the file is not an msi.
What if you want to install the updates and reboot if the result records a reboot is necessary. Here i will share some playbooks that will help on these tasks. Determines if reboot of windows machines is allowed. The target windows machines must have whitelisted network access to download updates. Update servers to the latest and reboot this is for debianubuntu flavored systems. Make ansible reboot remote hosts and wait for them to. The best reboot and wait in my experience i am using ansible 2.
Ansible can generally manage windows versions under current and extended support from microsoft. Module documentation is not edited directly, but is generated from the source code for the modules. Open source community keeps trying to make the code much simpler on the newer version. The playbook is pretty much working with the exception of controlling the ubuntu box reboot after upgrading the. Patching windows is a very time consuming task, but working with ansible you could reduce this time significantly. Next, we use the template module to copy over the nf and index. The script is one i customized, but is largely based on the content linked to in the references.
Ansible is a radically simple it automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration, and many other it needs designed for multitier deployments since day one, ansible models your it infrastructure by describing how all of your systems interrelate, rather than just managing one system at a. Deploying a windows machine with ansible and sysprep. Ansible playbook to run windows update and restart, if. Ansible can manage desktop oss including windows 7, 8. The solution dag posted is what ive always done, and it works great for me.
Maximum seconds to wait for a successful connection to the managed hosts before trying again. Then we use the uri module to check the connection to the page here is a playbook showing an example of. In this role, we install the rpms nginx, pythonpip, pythondevel, and devel and install uwsgi with pip. With all the explanation, the next time i tried to reboot a server i forgot to tell ansible to become root. Development of this project is managed in a private repository then pushed out to gitlab and github when we have a new version for you. Alexander dupuy has a more elegant solution in the comments below. How do i reboot a host remotely using an ansible playbook. Reboot and wait for reboot to complete in ansible playbook. Use ansible to patch your system and install applications. This role can be used to check for pending reboots for windows hosts. Samiam commented on use powershell to test if a windows server is. When it is set to false and reboot is pending, it will stop execution of the playbook.
Fortunately, the ansible team wrote a powershell script, configureremotingforansible, that makes it easy to get started with ansible for windows in your development or testing environment. Highstates that require a reboot may fail after reboot because salt continues the highstate before windows has finished the booting process. If unspecified, the default setting for the underlying connection plugin is used. Download prepackaged roles to streamline your processes. Keep a single server up to date is easy, but updating multiple servers at once, you need tools like ansible. This document covers details specific to using ansible for windows. The documentation states that i can run the following. How to fetch a file from a windows node with ansible. However, when this new template deploys, it is greeted with the windows welcome screen which blocks ansible provisioning it. The drawback is that it may increase the time it takes for the saltminion service to actually start. I would like to reboot the machine using shell module and wait for it to come back, but it does not work with the following playbook. In the prior posts we talked about connecting to windows machines, gave a brief introduction on using ansible with active directory, and discussed package management options on windows with ansible. Locally pull the ansible git code and run all the playbooks on your local machine, either add the local machine public key only machines belonging to admins as an authorized key on all the ansible targets, or store a predefined keyset in a vaultpassword manager, download, and add a flag to your commands to point to this keyset.
When i click passed this manually, ansible still dosnt seem to be able to talk to it, i believe winrm has somehow been disabled during the sysprep. Remoting into windows servers or clients from the ansible control machine requires windows remote manager winrm to be properly configured. Ansible win update and security patching updating windows with ansible. Seconds to wait after the reboot command was successful before attempting to validate the. I have tried to use the fetch module which works for me on a linux node, which seems not to work on. It has to run a custom ssh command because unlike ubuntu, there is no rebootrequired file to indicate a reboot is required. Or in other words, ive forgotten to supply the b flag. Reboot a machine, wait for it to go down, come back up, and respond to commands. Reboot a windows machine, wait for it to go down, come back up, and. Ansible get facts from remote windows hosts stack overflow. Ansible docs are generated from github sources using sphinx using a theme provided by read the docs. The ansible community for sharing automation tools, roles, and playbooks.
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