Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Setting up Ansible in Windows using WSL

Ansible is an open-source IT automation engine which is used to achieve several IT infrastructure automation needs such as configuration management, provisioning, deployment and many more. This blog explains how to get started with Ansible in Windows.

Pre-requisites:

  • Windows 10 Machine

Let's get started.

First, we need to install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Ubuntu in Windows machine as preparation prior to installing Ansible.

Login to Windows machine and open PowerShell in Administrative mode. Run following command to install WSL.