xPlatform ManagementxPlatform Management Windows Provisioning from *nix David James

Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell MMS 2014 TechEd AU 2014 Melbourne UG Automation xPlatform DevOps Melbourne, Australia David O’Brien

Solution Architect, Ensyst TechEd, Blog, Book, Courses Pre-Windows 2000 ;-) Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP Melbourne, Australia James Bannan

Agenda  Why is xPlatform important?  Who does it?  Ansible  How to execute PowerShell from Linux  How to use PowerShell in Ansible  How to write Ansible modules

Why is xPlatform important?  Why is it hard?  Linux != Windows and Windows != Linux  Why is it important?  Environments today are very heterogeneous  Applications have frontends on Windows and backends on Linux  One tool to rule them all

Ansible  Configuration Management Tool  Python  Management Host – Linux  Target Hosts – Linux and Windows  Agentless  Pull mode still possible  YAML

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