Using Ansible on Windows and BSD

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Welcome to the Ansible guide for Microsoft Windows and BSD. Because Windows is not a POSIX-compliant operating system, Ansible interacts with Windows hosts differently than Linux/Unix hosts. Likewise, managing hosts that run BSD is different than managing other Unix-like host operating systems. Find out everything you need to know about using Ansible on Windows and with BSD hosts.

• Managing BSD hosts with Ansible
  • Connecting to BSD nodes
  • Bootstrapping BSD
  • Setting the Python interpreter
  • Which modules are available?
  • Using BSD as the control node
  • BSD facts
  • BSD efforts and contributions
• Managing Windows hosts with Ansible
  • Desired State Configuration
  • Windows performance
  • Windows SSH
  • Using Ansible and Windows
  • Windows Remote Management
  • WinRM Certificate Authentication
  • Kerberos Authentication
  • Bootstrapping Windows
  • Connecting to Windows nodes
  • Which modules are available?
  • Using Windows as the control node
  • Windows facts
  • Common Windows problems