Support for installing Ansible on Windows

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John Thompson

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Aug 26, 2019, 2:39:19 PM8/26/19
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Hi,

I have done some searching but can't see if there is any update on supporting the installation of Ansible on Windows? I'd be interested to know if there are any plans?


Also, as the FAQ gives the only option as WSL, but states this isn't supported by Ansible are there plans to support WSL at least in the future?

Thanks.

John




Jonathan Lozada De La Matta

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Aug 26, 2019, 2:57:35 PM8/26/19
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someone else can answer  officially but, as far as I know there is no plan to support installing ansible on windows.

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John Thompson

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Aug 27, 2019, 3:35:43 PM8/27/19
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Thanks for the reply Jonathan. Much appreciated. 

Is there an official answer out there publicly, or someone who can confirm in the product group?

J

Jordan Borean

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Aug 27, 2019, 3:55:12 PM8/27/19
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No plans, it will work but in the odd case it doesn’t you won’t get any help from GitHub unless you ca replicate it on an actual Linux platform.

John Thompson

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Aug 28, 2019, 5:43:20 PM8/28/19
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Thanks for the response Jordan.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:55 PM Jordan Borean <jbor...@gmail.com> wrote:
No plans, it will work but in the odd case it doesn’t you won’t get any help from GitHub unless you ca replicate it on an actual Linux platform.

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John Favorite

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Aug 28, 2019, 5:52:29 PM8/28/19
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J Hawkesworth

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Sep 2, 2019, 1:02:35 PM9/2/19
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I use ansible from WSL most days and it works just fine for me. Unless you are calling stuff which attempts to use a system call that hasn't been implemented in WSL translation layer it will be fine.

The above shouldn't be an issue with WSL 2 but I haven't tried that myself.

That said I use Linux vms for production and have no plans to change that. But it is fine for developing playbooks and roles.

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