If you want to install Ansible on windows, you will encounter the fact that Ansible doesn't run on windows. At least not natively. There are 2 ways how to operate with ansible on Windows:

• Using Cygwin
• Installing ubuntu Subsystem (only Windows 10+)

We will do it both ways here, but before we continue it is important to mention that ansible is disered state / agentless / automation system. In order for it to communicate with the targets it relies on:

• WinRm - For Windows Systems
• SSH - For Linux Systems

So let's continue all :)

Downloading and installing Cygwin is fairly easy. Just download the Cygwin and select ansible in the package:

After that you will have the ansible command

andonovj@DESKTOP-N65RKDP /cygdrive/d/Virtuals/Docker Swarm
$ ansible --version
ansible 2.8.4
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/andonovj/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.7.4 (default, Jul 21 2019, 14:43:25) [GCC 7.4.0]

The ubuntu subsystem is available from the windows store and can be installed on Windows 10+ After you install the ubuntu WS, we have to install couple other stuff before ansible :) So let's get going. Firstly, we have to update our repo:

root@DESKTOP-N65RKDP:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages [8570 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages [651 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main Translation-en [211 kB]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/restricted amd64 Packages [23.8 kB]
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Then we have to install the pip:

root@DESKTOP-N65RKDP:~# apt-get install python3-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
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Really finally, we can install the ansible using the pything indexing or the Pip

root@DESKTOP-N65RKDP:~# apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
 Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.

To communicate with windows we have to install couple other modules:

• Pywinrm - Used for communication with Windows
• Pywinram[credssp] - Used for authentication

root@DESKTOP-N65RKDP:~# pip3 install pywinrm
Collecting pywinrm
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/88/be0ea1af44c3bcc54e4c41e4056986743551693c77dfe50b48a3f4ba1bf7/pywinrm-0.4.1.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.9.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pywinrm)
Collecting requests_ntlm>=0.3.0 (from pywinrm)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/4b/8b9a1afde8072c4d5710d9fa91433d504325821b038e00237dc8d6d833dc/requests_ntlm-1.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
root@DESKTOP-N65RKDP:~# pip3 install pywinrm[credssp]
Requirement already satisfied: pywinrm[credssp] in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pywinrm[credssp])
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.9.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pywinrm[credssp])
Requirement already satisfied: requests-ntlm>=0.3.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from pywinrm[credssp])
Requirement already satisfied: xmltodict in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from pywinrm[credssp])
Collecting requests-credssp>=1.0.0; extra == "credssp" (from pywinrm[credssp])
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/b9/43cd780

From Ansible 2.10 or so, you have to install collections in Ansible, if you want to use them:

To install Oracle collection: (oracle.oci) just run the following commands:

julien.andonov@julienaonovsMBP oci-ansible-collection % ansible-galaxy collection install oracle.oci
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/oracle-oci-2.36.0.tar.gz to /Users/julien.andonov/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-881012o19jld_/tmp_jma691c/oracle-oci-2.36.0-t77z2xqd
Installing 'oracle.oci:2.36.0' to '/Users/julien.andonov/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/oracle/oci'
oracle.oci:2.36.0 was installed successfully
julien.andonov@julienaonovsMBP oci-ansible-collection %