In this vide I want to show you, as aLinux admin, how to get facts from a windows wserver.
To set the scene, you're a Linux admin who works with Ansible. You already collect facts, including custom facts from Linux servers, but you've been asked to extent this to a small number of Windows servers. Apart from the usual facts collected by the setup module, we also need to know the versions of installed software so we can get a picture of our estate. You don't know how to write powershell but you know it can;t be that hard.
This is what I'm going to show you today:
- I already have Ansible able to manage a windows server. IF you don't, check out my other video on gtting that setup: https://youtu.be/aPN18jLRkJI
- I'm goint to show you how to collect facts from a windows server using the setup module.
- Next I'll add a custom facts to collect all installed applications and their versions.
- Then I'll show you how to collect specific versions of installed applications and capture them in a local facts file.
- We'll put this file back to our linux server and check it to see what that looks like.
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Lets get started...
To be able to confirm this and follow along, you need to have a working setup. Follow the video link above and follow my steps to get Ansible managing windows servers.