Your Superpowered Windows Infrastructure Toolkit: Ansible,...
summary
Adds Ansible to a Windows toolkit and shows concrete results: a Linux control host runs Ansible against Hyper‑V to create two VMs from a VHDX (mount, resize, drop an unattend file), installs Chocolatey via the chocolatey.chocolatey collection, uses win_disk and other win_ modules, deploys IIS and a templated site with jinja2 templates*, retries package installs against a local Nexus repo, and applies network, audit, firewall and GP registry hardening with reboot and gpupdate handlers. Indentation and WinRM setup matter.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Windows toolkit intro
- 1:06Why Ansible for Windows
- 13:43Setting up the lab environment
- 15:27Creating virtual machines with Ansible
- 26:09Verify VMs and connectivity
- 30:21PowerShell via Ansible
- 43:36Baseline config with Chocolatey
- 53:40Install packages and BGInfo
- 54:02Configure IIS servers
- 1:02:54Security hardening
- 1:19:40Final checks and firewall
- 1:22:12Key takeaways
- 1:25:25Q&A
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