Using Ansible to Run Powershell Scripts
In the midst of playing with Ansible and figured my most common use case would be executing powershell scripts on remote servers, so scavenged around and put this together.
Pre-Requsites
Link to Git Project
Preparing to Execute the Script
This script assumes you have already installed and configured Ansible, downloaded the Git Repo and installed the WinRM python module.
Define your group variables. Create a hostgroup.yml file in this folder. This is where you specify the username, password and WinRM port to use. This file should mimit the host group defined in your hosts file.
ansible_ssh_user: admin
ansible_ssh_pass: password
ansible_ssh_port: 5985
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
Here is the yaml code responsible for launching the script. Copy the script into the scripts directory and update the file.
- name: Run Powershell Scripts
hosts: test
tasks:
- name: run a powershell script
script: scripts/hello.ps1
register: out
- debug: var=out
Execute the Script
- Run ansible-playbook powershell.yml -i hosts