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Getting started with Ansible and configuring Windows hosts

Posted on October 25, 2018May 28, 2019 by Georgi Marokov

Ansible is a configuration management, provisioning and deployment tool which is quickly gaining popularity in the DevOps areas. Managing and working on various platforms including Microsoft Windows. What makes Ansible...

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