# Ansible with windows

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-with-windows/30929>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** azure, windows, aws\
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-with-windows/30929 "2019-08-01T11:06:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Irfan\_Pasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@Irfan\_Pasha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Irfan_Pasha)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-with-windows/30929/1 "2019-08-01T11:06:33Z")

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Hi,

I have been using ansible for a while and I love it. It just makes complex things very easy. So far I have been ansible on CentOS and it has been a cake walk. Now I have to do some automation on windows and I see that the WinRM is very slow. I see that just Gathering facts itself from a linux ansible client to a remote windows server takes almost 5+ seconds. I would like to know how people in community use ansible with windows. I use packer with VSphere and execute ansible. Do people use vsphere or mostly Azure,AWS and docker ?

If you think your ansible + windows is faster, please share your thoughts and configurations that make them run more faster.

Thank you !

Regards,  
Irfan