Need to Deploy OS using ansible playbook

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Hi All,

any one experimented how to deploy OS using playbook ?
how to call WDS Server using ansible playbook?

if anyone done , please share me steps.

regards,
Pavan

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When you say deploy an OS:

is this a bare-metal Server or a Virtual Machine on vSphere ?

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need to deploy WS2019 OS on bare-metal server not in virtual machine

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If the Server is an HP maybe try this Module:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/hpilo_boot_module.html

Or Dell IDrac

https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules

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our server in dell , used below module , it’s working fine i have tested already.

https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules/idrac_os_deployment.yml

but it will trigger till WinEP , from there we have to do manually ,looking for zero touch deployment scenarios like how we do using Microsoft MDT.

let me know if you have any idea.

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Hello Pavan.

Ansible is not a bare metal deployment tool.
For bare metal you need wds with pxe of iso boot and mdt and then maybe use Ansible for the other tasks.
Or make a preconfigured bootable iso or something.