Ansible for the Windows Admin

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Shows how VSCode + WSL becomes an Ansible console, uses WinRM to manage Windows hosts, and demos building an Active Directory domain on Vagrant VMs with playbooks that call win_feature, win_dsc and win_shell. Explains credential handling with ansible-vault, winrm message encryption (Ansible 2.6), wait_for_connection and handlers to avoid failed reboots, and how PowerShell DSC resources get invoked. Includes a working example of writing Windows modules in PowerShell that accept JSON arguments and return changed/failed JSON, plus the WSL file-permissions gotcha.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:00Declarative Configuration
3. 2:13Human Readable Configuration
4. 3:47Why People Are Not Using Ansible
5. 5:13Why Do I Need Ansible
6. 7:50Hosts an Inventory
7. 9:15Data Files Yaml
8. 11:59Check Mode
9. 12:14Demo
10. 13:44Ansible Extension
11. 14:12File Associations
12. 14:44Ansible File Type
13. 15:06Set Your Default Shell
14. 16:46Issue with File Permissions and Metadata
15. 17:41Permission for Everyone
16. 18:28Change File Permissions
17. 20:55Ansible Files
18. 22:26Defining the Hosts
19. 22:50Gather Facts
20. 23:34Use the Name Field
21. 29:00Callback Plugins
22. 31:59Ansible Vault Encrypt
23. 33:45Ansiblevault Encrypt String
24. 39:50Debug and Pause
25. 43:44Convert It to Json
26. 46:25Code Snippets
27. 50:59Winrar Message Encryption
28. 51:32Ssl Encryption
29. 53:08Kerberos
30. 1:05:43Create a Domain
31. 1:06:12Variables
32. 1:07:44Wait for Connection
33. 1:09:25Loop
34. 1:19:29Module Authoring
35. 1:19:55Ansible Modules Running in Powershell Core
36. 1:20:26Helper Modules
37. 1:22:41Windows Module
38. 1:26:16Helper Functions
39. 1:27:09Get Ansible Param
40. 1:31:32Ansible Config File
41. 1:33:39Param Block

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