Hello there and welcome to Pluralsight.
Welcome to the course Ansible on Windows Fundamentals.
My name is Tim Warner.
I'm happy to be your instructor.
This is the first module in the course, and its title
is Introducing Ansible On Windows.
I have three learning objectives aligned to why,
what, and how, core principles of adult education in my
experience. First the why. By the end of this lesson,
you'll understand Ansible's role in the realm of configuration management.
What? You'll review with me key Ansible features particularly
scoped to a Microsoft Windows environment.
And then the how is you'll understand how to set up the Ansible
control node in an entirely Windows environment.
Now you may already be scratching your head thinking, hang on, Tim.
My understanding is that the Ansible software runs
only on Linux. Plot twist, it does.
Well, hang on.
Let's get to the content. First though,
if this is your first or a newish Pluralsight course for you, know
that you can get to the exercise files in a full web player
environment by going over to the Exercise files tab and clicking
the button Download exercise files.
I like to give you not only the source code that I use in my demos,
but also a helpful links list that contains
references that supplement the training.