Support for winrm connection to Windows hosts

[jhampson-dbre]

We were looking at creating an API wrapper around ansible runner when we found this project. 🤗

Our use case primarily revolves around managing Windows servers using winrm rather than SSH. Does ansible runner service inventory support Windows hosts that use winrm connection?

[mnecas]

Hi, don't know much about winrm but... If I understand it correctly you need to have config like this [1] in extravars as in [2]? You can send to the body request JSON data which will be used in the extravars when running the playbook. You can check the extravars in _private_datadir/artifacts/UUID/env/

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_winrm.html#basic [2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/blob/master/demo/env/extravars

[jhampson-dbre]

Usually we have it configured as group_vars in inventory, such as

# group_vars/windows.yml
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_transport: kerberos

It seems like we should be able to do the same here and set disable ssh_checks in config.yaml, since no SSH keys will be involved?

ssh_checks: False

Would you take a pull request if any documentation is needed for windows-specific setup?

[mnecas]

Yeah, it would be best to have it in docs (not sure where specifically) don't hesitate to create PR.

[gthieleb]

@jhampson-dbre Do you already have some decision where to put configuration hints for winrm communication? I can't find something the documentation.