Ansible playbook to run a powershell script that prints Hello, this is my script output on a windows machine

To Run

ansible-playbook -i inventory_windows.yml playbooks/win_ps_nc.yml

Note

Please update the machine info with your target host in the inventory file before running the playbook

Example Output

SSH password: 

PLAY [Run PowerShell script on Windows] ****************************************

TASK [Ping the Windows machine] ************************************************
ok: [windows_machines_nc]

TASK [Create destination directory] ********************************************
changed: [windows_machines_nc]

TASK [Copy hello.ps1 script] ***************************************************
ok: [windows_machines_nc]

TASK [Run the script] **********************************************************
changed: [windows_machines_nc]

TASK [Verify script success] ***************************************************
changed: [windows_machines_nc]

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************
ok: [windows_machines_nc] => {
    "script_output.stdout_lines": [
        "Hello, this is my script output."
    ]
}

TASK [fail] ********************************************************************
skipping: [windows_machines_nc]

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
windows_machines_nc        : ok=6    changed=3    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=1    rescued=0    ignored=0

References

Setting up a Windows Host - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/os_guide/windows_setup.html

Troubleshooting Options - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/os_guide/windows_setup.html#timeout-errors