How to install an application on Windows by using Ansible playbook

To Install an Application on Windows by using Ansible playbook

Introduction:

Ansible is an open-source tool for managing software configurations and deploying applications. Chocolately is a management tool for Windows software.

Master Server Requirements:

Windows Requirements:

Installation Procedure:

Step 1: Search for chocolatey in browser

Step 2: Copy the installation command in chocolatey install page Step 3: Run Powershell ISE as an administrator

Step 4: Install chocolatey by using the following command

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) Forcing web requests to allow TLS v1.2 (Required for requests to Chocolatey.org) Getting latest version of the Chocolatey package for download. Not using proxy. Getting Chocolatey from https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey/0.11.3. Downloading https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey/0.11.3 to C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocoInstall\chocolatey.zip Not using proxy. Extracting C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocoInstall\chocolatey.zip to C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocoInstall Installing Chocolatey on the local machine Creating ChocolateyInstall as an environment variable (targeting 'Machine') Setting ChocolateyInstall to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey' WARNING: It's very likely you will need to close and reopen your shell before you can use choco. Restricting write permissions to Administrators We are setting up the Chocolatey package repository. The packages themselves go to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib' (i.e. C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName). A shim file for the command line goes to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin' and points to an executable in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName'. 

Step 5: Check the OS version by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 21.04 Release: 21.04 Codename: hirsute 

Step 6: Check the availability of Ansible package

root@linuxhelp:~# apt list -a ansible Listing. Done ansible/hirsute,hirsute,now 4.8.0-1ppa~hirsute all [installed] ansible/hirsute,hirsute 2.10.7-1 all 

Step 7: Check the availability of python3-pip package

root@linuxhelp:~# apt list -a python3 Listing. Done python3/hirsute,now 3.9.4-1 amd64 [installed,automatic] python3/hirsute 3.9.4-1 i386 

Step 8: Check the availability of python package pywinrm

root@linuxhelp:~# pip list | grep pywinrm pywinrm 0.4.2 ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore 

Step 9: Install the plugins of chocolatey for ansible

root@linuxhelp:~# ansible-galaxy collection install chocolatey.chocolatey Starting galaxy collection install process Nothing to do. All requested collections are already installed. If you want to reinstall them, consider using `--force`. 

Step 10:Create inventory for Windows node system

root@linuxhelp:~# vi /etc/ansible/hosts [windows] 192.168.2.134 [windows:vars] ansible_user=Admin ansible_password=Admin@123 ansible_port=5986 ansible_connection=winrm 

Step 11:Create playbook for installing namecoin application

root@linuxhelp:~# vi install.yml hosts: windows gather_facts: true tasks: - name: install namecoin win_chocolatey: name: namecoin state: present 

Step 12: Check the syntax of the install.yml ansible playbook by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# ansible-playbook install.yml --syntax-check playbook: proxyset.yml 

Step 13: Run the install.yml playbook by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# ansible-playbook install.yml PLAY [windows] ************************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************** ok: [192.168.2.134] TASK [install namecoin] ***************************************************************************** changed: [192.168.2.134] PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************** 192.168.2.134 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 

Step 14 : Namecoin application installed on Windows Client system

Step 15: Create playbook for uninstall namecoin application

root@linuxhelp:~# vi uninstall.yml - hosts: windows gather_facts: true tasks: - name: Uninstall namecoin win_chocolatey: name: namecoin state: absent ~ 

Step 16: Check the syntax of the uninstall.yml ansible playbook by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# ansible-playbook uninstall.yml --syntax-check playbook: removeproxy.yml 

Step 17: Run the uninstall.yml playbook by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# ansible-playbook uninstall.yml PLAY [windows] ************************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************** ok: [192.168.2.134] TASK [Uninstall namecoin] *************************************************************************** changed: [192.168.2.134] PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************** 192.168.2.134 : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 

Step 18: Namecoin application Uninstalled on Windows Client system

With this installation of an application on Windows by using Ansible comes to an end

Install Windows software – Ansible module win_chocolatey

How to Install Windows software with Ansible? Today I’m going to reveal a secret to installing software in a Windows managed host using Chocolatey Package Manager.

September 8, 2021

How to Install Windows software with Ansible?

Today I’m going to reveal a secret to installing the software in a Windows-managed host using Chocolatey Package Manager. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Ansible module win_chocolatey

Chocolatey is the package manager for windows, it has the largest online registry of Windows packages. At the moment it contains nearly 9000 Community Maintained Packages. Today we’re talking about Ansible module win_chocolatey to automate the software installation process. The full name is chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey, which means that is part of the collection distributed by “chocolatey”. It manages packages in Windows using chocolatey. It’s the windows correspondent of the ansible package module.

Parameters

• name list–string – the name of the package
• state string – present / latest /absent /downgrade /reinstalled
• version string – specific version
• pinned boolean – no/yes
• source string – URL/path

The parameter list is pretty wide but this four are the most important options. In the “name” parameter you are going to specify the name of the package or a list of packages. If you would like to install a specific version you could specify it in the “version” parameter. The state specifies the action that we would like to perform. In our case for install is “present or latest”. I’d like to mention some additional parameters that might be useful for you. The “pinned” parameter allows to pin the Chocolatey package or not. Pin a package to suppress upgrades. During the next upgrade for all packages, Chocolatey will automatically skip the pinned packages. “source” allows specifying a local repository for packages if available.

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demo

Are you ready to make your hands dirty? Let’s jump in a quick live demo of a playbook about the win_chocolatey module.

• win_chocolatey.yml

--- - name: win_chocolatey module demo  hosts: all  become: false  gather_facts: false  vars:  - packages:  - git  - notepadplusplus  tasks:  - name: install packages  chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey:  name: ">"  state: present 

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При подготовке материала использовались источники:
https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-an-application-on-windows-by-using-ansible-playbook
https://www.ansiblepilot.com/articles/install-windows-software-ansible-module-win-chocolatey/