Installing Ansible on Windows through WSL

Requirements: WSL is already setup. Do all the steps below inside the WSL instance

1. Install Ansible & sshpass: pip install ansible & sudo apt install sshpass

2. Generate SSH Keys and Copy:

   > ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 
   > ssh-copy-id {username}@{remote_server_ip}
   

3. Create Playbook directory: mkdir ansible_playbooks

4. Create Inventory file with the following:

   inventory.yml

   [debian_lxc]
   192.168.1.173 ansible_ssh_user=root
   

   5. Create playbook file with the follwing:

   test.yml

   ---
   - name: Example Playbook
   hosts: debian_lxc
   tasks:
   - name: Hello World
       debug:
       msg: Hello, world!
   

5. Run the Playbook: ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini test.yml