Gain insights into installing and using Ansible, delve into playbooks and inventory management, and learn about troubleshooting to efficiently automate IT tasks and enhance your IT career.

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In an era of IT environments, automation is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Ansible, an open-source IT automation tool, has become a go-to solution for streamlining IT tasks. This comprehensive course aims to equip you with both fundamental and advanced Ansible knowledge.

You'll start by installing Ansible, understanding its architecture, and diving into inventory management and playbook creation. Next, you'll explore variables, conditional statements, loops, handlers, roles, and collections. After that, the course dives into Ansible for Linux-specific tasks and troubleshooting techniques to resolve common problems like connection failures, missing parameters, and syntax errors. 

After completing this course, you'll have gained a robust understanding of Ansible, with the ability to create efficient playbooks, manage inventory, troubleshoot common problems, and automate a wide range of IT tasks. These skills will provide a strong foundation for a thriving career in IT infrastructure management.

Automating IT Infrastructure with Ansible

Officially, Windows is not a supported operating system for the Ansible control node, even if Red Hat is working hard to eliminate barriers to native Windows controllers.
The reason behind this is that there are a lot of UNIXisms deeply baked into most of Ansible that prevent it from working on native Windows. Windows doesn’t have the `fork()` syscall implementation. The Ansible controller worker model as of 2.11 makes heavy use of the POSIX `fork()` syscall.
Some people use Cygwin POSIX-compatibility projects, but sometimes it just breaks, so it's not a reliable solution.

# WSL installation

The best way to use Ansible on Windows is to use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Two versions of WSL technology are available. Version 2 runs faster and better than version 1.

Learn to install Ansible on Windows using the Windows Subsystem for Linux feature.

Getting Started

Ansible Language

Ansible for Linux

Ansible Troubleshooting

Appendix: Ansible Installation

Conclusion

Install Ansible on Windows