# How to create an Ansible Playbook in Windows?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-in-windows/33871>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-in-windows/33871 "2020-09-23T01:40:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prabhakaran_Karuppai)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-in-windows/33871/1 "2020-09-23T01:40:59Z")

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Hi Members,

How to create an Ansible Playbook (starfish.yml) in Windows to use in the Linux System (CentOS 7) through Shared Folders…Thanks for reading and an advanced thanks to your replies.

With Hope,  
Prabhakaran

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-in-windows/33871/2 "2020-09-23T01:51:10Z")

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Windows as a controller node is not supported:  
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user\_guide/windows\_faq.html#can-ansible-run-on-windows](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_faq.html#can-ansible-run-on-windows)

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**Author:** ![Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prabhakaran_Karuppai)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-create-an-ansible-playbook-in-windows/33871/3 "2020-09-23T02:02:24Z")

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Hi Sir,  
Thanks for your reply. For your information, I don’t want to run the playbooks in windows. I just want those to be created in a Text Editor like Notepad or any other Windows tool. The current problem I am facing is that there is no copy and paste feature in my current Linux environment (CentOS 7 Minimal Edition - command line only). Is there a way to “create” yml files in windows and make them run on Linux command line through “Shared Folders” …please reply…

With Hope,  
Prabhakaran