Azure list Bastion hosts

az network bastion list

Install Azure CLI for Mac

 1) Install Homebrew

https://brew.sh

2) Before doing a 'brew update' you have to run the following commands:

To `brew update`, first run:

  git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core fetch --unshallow

  git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask fetch --unshallow

3) Install Azure CLI

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-macos

brew update && brew install azure-cli

4) Login to Azure

az login

Creating an Ansible Control Server for Windows Targets

Creating an Ansible Control Server for Windows Targets

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 Server on Azure

In order for the Control server to use Windows targets, you need Ansible v2.9 or later.

To get Ansible v2.9, install Ansible using pip3 (apt-get installs an older version of Ansible).

To install Python:

sudo apt install sofware-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install python3.8

sudo apt install python3-pip

To install Ansible:

pip3 install ansible

Get ansible version:

ansible --version

Install pywinrm (in order to communicate with Windows targets)

pip3 install "pywinrm>=0.3.0"

Ansible Windows Modules:

win_shell

win_command

win_msi

win_copy

Ansible files required on control host at a minumum

e.g. Inside the folder: /home/azureuser/ansible

2 files: 'hosts' and 'ansible.cfg'

ansible.cfg file - specifies where hosts file is.

hosts (not for prod - passwords are cleartext & no cert validation)

[win]

10.2.0.5

[win:vars]

ansible_user=userWithAdminRightsOnTarget

ansible_password=password

ansible_connection=winrm

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

ansible.cfg

[defaults]

inventory=hosts

Example Playbook

---

- hosts: win

  tasks: 

  - name: Copy File

    win_copy: 

      src: C:\temp\1.txt

      dest: c:\temp2\

      remote_src: yes