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Raylite3
Raylite3

Reputation: 857

Can an Ansible control machine be a Linux VM?

I am researching Ansible and am figuring out what is required to use it in a Windows only environment. I came across this link:

http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html

and there it says that I need a Linux control machine.

I don't want to make it a requirement for customers who are Windows shops to setup and manage a Linux machine. So can I run a Linux VM on a Windows machine and use that as my control machine? I haven't tried this yet but wanted to know if there are any gotchas with this approach?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 556

Answers (3)

skinnedknuckles
skinnedknuckles

Reputation: 411

I developed my Ansible playbooks on a linux computer and deployed it on a linux VM without any trouble.

Upvotes: 0

Arbab Nazar
Arbab Nazar

Reputation: 23801

Yes it can be a VM but the best thing is to use virtualenv and install ansible inside the virtualenv, which is also true on Windows machine, I think as I am not Windows user. The main banefit is that you don't need to run the VM and give it the more resources. Hope that will help you. Thanks

Upvotes: -1

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180065

Yes, you could use a Linux VM to execute your Ansible playbooks. We did this for a coworker who ran Windows-only and it works fine as long as you configure the VM to be able to SSH into the Ansible-managed servers.

Upvotes: 2

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