Setting up Windows hosts for Ansible control

So far, we have talked about running Ansible itself from Windows. This is helpful, especially in a corporate environment where perhaps Windows end user systems are the norm. However, what about actual automation tasks? The good news is that automation of Windows with Ansible does not require WSL. One of Ansible's core premises is to be agentless, and that remains true for Windows as for Linux. Just as it is fair to assume that almost any modern Linux host will have SSH access enabled, most modern Windows hosts have a remote management protocol built in, called WinRM. For security reasons, this technology is disabled by default, and so, in this part of the book, we walk through the process for enabling and securing WinRM for remote management with Ansible.

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