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Introduction

Maybe you saw my previous post where I configured a Zabbix server with Ansible. Since Ansible is not supported on any Windows platform I was using a VM with CentOS on it. This quickly became a struggle to constantly change from Windows to CentOS and vice versa. So I did some research and came across Cygwin. With this program it is possible to run Ansible but it's not officialy supported. But I don't have any issues at this moment on Windows 8.1 Pro.

How do we install Ansible?

Ofcourse the first thing we need to do is install Cygwin. Click here to download (32bit - 64bit). Open the setup and select the following programs to install:
  • curl
  • git
  • vim
  • openssh
  • openssh-devel
  • python (2.7.x)
  • python-crypto
  • python-ssl
  • python-setuptools
  • make
  • gcc-core

Once the setup is completed fire up Cygwin. The program is called "Cygwin Terminal", you should get the following screen.


Now you can follow this series of commands:



After adding my hosts and keys the same way I did here I was able to shutdown my CentOS machine and use my Windows machines to manage my Ansible setup :).


3 reacties:

  1. Is it possible install in Windows server? I tried it on windows server but fail.

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  2. Hey sir you fogot a small step!
    afer line 24 "git submodule update --init --recursive" you will need to run "python setup.pi install" in order to install ansible!

    Thank you for your work documenting the process

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