Run Ansible against a standalone Windows server

[Eric Chong]

Is there a way to run Ansible against a standalone Windows server that is not in a domain?  The document shows how to setup kerberos with Windows domain.  What if the Windows server is not in any domain?

Thanks

[Matt Davis]

Kerberos only functions on domain-joined hosts. The default authtype is Basic, so as long as you have Basic auth enabled in your WinRM config (our setup script does this), you're fine to use local users with ansible_user/ansible_password. You can also change the authtype to NTLM via ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm.