

Inventory.yml: Contains the hosts that are required and other connection information such as IP addresses and forwarded ports Vagrantfile: The Vagrant file that reads the inventory setup of inventory.yml and provisions the hosts that are required Multiple Windows hosts in a domain environment. Repo contains three files which are used by both Ansible and Vagrant to create The VagrantfileĬan be used to create a test domain environment to be used in Ansible. Host won’t work without modification with domain based modules. While this is useful when testing modules on a single Windows instance, these Vagrant destroy -force and Vagrant will automatically remove the VM and Port may differ depending if there was a conflict. When the host is online, it can accessible by RDP on 127.0.0.1:3389 but the The OS that is created is based on the image set. Port then Vagrant will automatically use another one at random and display Windows host that was created, if this conflicts with an existing local The port 55986 is automatically forwarded by Vagrant to the VirtualBox documentation for installation instructions): To find out more info on how these images are created, please go to the GitHubīefore you can get started, the following programs must be installed (please consult the Vagrant and Repository which have also been uploaded to Vagrant Cloud. This guide will use the Vagrant boxes created by the packer-windoze Stored offline or they can be downloaded from a central repository called Vagrant can be used to download existing OS images called boxes that are thenĭeployed to a hypervisor like VirtualBox.

Ready to by used by Ansible is to set up a virtual machine using Vagrant. The easiest way to set up a Windows host so that it is Microsoft, these images are usually not ready to be used by Ansible withoutįurther modification. While evaluation editions of Windows can be downloaded from Unlike Python module development which can be run on the host that runsĪnsible, Windows modules need to be written and tested for Windows hosts.

