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Ansible Includes Support For Windows

Ansible is bringing in Windows support on their systems, making use of PowerShell as the core technology. The newest release will contain Windows integration only in the testing stage. This is oriented with their principal philosophy of employing the functionalities in the operating system to manage it. PowerShell Windows Remote Management (WinRM) includes the main technologies, which will be used to this end. They are both natively available on the latest versions of Windows OS, and can be installed on preceding ones too. WinRM somewhat resembles SSH, in that it allows Ansible to keep up the agent-less approach. Every module in Ansible is coded using PowerShell, which allows Windows users to do the same. PowerShell is supported by the WS-Management protocol and the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service. The latter is what implements the protocol in Windows. On computers running Windows 7 or higher, there is the WinRM 2.0 or later. With versions before that, you would need to inst