Ansible Hello World on Windows 10 Automation — let’s sail together.

IAC : Infrastructure as a code — Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.

Ansible uses playbook to describe automation jobs and playbook uses very simple language i.e. YAML

Before you proceed,

I highly recommend the below tutorial from “TechWorld with Nana”

What is Ansible and Yaml Tutorial

Let’s begin our journey with 8 simple steps on running our first Ansible “Hello World” playbook on windows 10

Step 1: Go to Windows features, select the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” to activate it.

Step 2: Go to the Microsoft app store and Search for Linux. I selected “Ubuntu 20.04”

Step 3: Once Ubuntu is installed you can select Ubuntu which will take you to the bash shell. Set your username/password.

Once your Operating system is ready, let’s begin the fun with Ansible

Step 4: Ensure system is up to date

and

Install required software-properties-common

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Step 5:

Add the official ansible Linux repository.

Update again post repository addition

Install Ansible.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible

Step 6: Confirm Ansible is Installed

Let’s continue……to play around with Ansible now..more 5 steps to go….

Step 7: Let’s build our first ansiblehelloworld playbook.

nano ansiblehelloworld.yml
---
- name: Hello World!
  hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Hello World!
      debug:
        msg: Hello World, Welcome to Ansible!!

ctrl+x then y to save it in current working directory

Step 8: To test, run your first ansible playbook using below command

ansible-playbook ansiblehelloworld.yml

Will continue this journey, by adding more Ansible use cases…..keep sailing…..!!