SofiaNeogalaxy / ansible-windows-vm-setup

Windows VM Setup with Ansible Package Management

Windows VM Setup with Ansible Package Management

This repository provides Terraform and Ansible code to create and provision a Windows VM on Azure with various packages installed using Ansible.

Prerequisites

Before using this repository, you need to have the following:

• Azure account with an active subscription
• Terraform CLI
• Ansible CLI
• Azure CLI

Setup

To setup the environment, follow these steps:

Clone the repository and navigate to the repository directory Initialize the Terraform environment:

terraform init

Modify the variables.tf file according to your needs, for example, by specifying the desired region or VM size. Deploy the infrastructure:

terraform apply

Once the infrastructure is deployed, navigate to the ansible directory and run the playbook:

ansible-playbook azure-cli.yaml generic.yaml prereqs.yaml localhost.yaml

Once the playbook is complete, you can verify that the packages have been installed on the VM.

Files

This repository contains the following files:

• main.tf: Terraform code to create the Windows VM and network resources.
• outputs.tf: Terraform code to output the public IP of the VM.
• providers.tf: Terraform code to specify the Azure provider.
• ansible: Directory containing Ansible playbooks and inventory files.
  • azure-cli.yaml: Ansible playbook to install Azure CLI.
  • generic.yaml: Ansible playbook to install Git and Python.
  • hosts: Ansible inventory file specifying the IP address of the VM.
  • localhost.yaml: Ansible playbook to install Ansible on the VM.
  • prereqs.yaml: Ansible playbook to install various prerequisites.