Ansible is an open-source automation engine that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Ansible can manage any *NIX platform through the SSH and for Windows systems use WinRM. Ansible have 100’s of modules to support AWS service and various windows management tasks.
Enterprise are always after automation as its saves costs, time and reduce human errors. Also management is easy.
Lab Setup
In this lab setup we are going to spin a new Microsoft Windows 2016 EC2 instance using the Ansible.
Pre-Requisites
Ansible installed and access configured to AWS account.
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