# Ansible for Windows

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-for-windows/23800>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [February 22, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-for-windows/23800 "2017-02-22T19:12:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Mehlhop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Frank\_Mehlhop](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Frank_Mehlhop)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-for-windows/23800/1 "2017-02-22T19:12:05Z")

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Hi,

I work with Windows.  
I would like to use Vagrant on with gitolite my machine and therefore I need Ansible.  
Is it a piece of Software to download and install?  
Where do I get it?  
Or how do I get Ansible on my machine?

Would be lovely to get help!  
Frank

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-for-windows/23800/2 "2017-02-23T22:01:43Z")

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The following should be enough to get you started:

[http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro\_installation.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html)

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**Author:** ![pixel\_fairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@pixel\_fairy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pixel_fairy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-for-windows/23800/3 "2017-02-24T04:18:08Z")

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> Hi,
> 
> I work with Windows.  
> I would like to use Vagrant on with gitolite my machine and therefore I need Ansible.  
> Is it a piece of Software to download and install?  
> Where do I get it?  
> Or how do I get Ansible on my machine?

ansible does not run native on windows, so if thats your control machine, you’ll need a vm or the “windows bash shell” from microsoft to run it.  
for vagrant, just install to one of the vagrant nodes and run from there. its easier to run vagrant from git-bash than powershell because it includes ssh,  
which you’ll need for the control node.