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Hi Team,

At this phase we are evaluating Ansible for our project where the requirement is to automate our build servers where a bunch of s/w installed and configured.
Here is the details what we do:
We work on windows, linux, solaris, aix and hpux hpus hosts(WIndows and linux are used mostly)

For our regular build and other projects, during the setup process, we do manual installation of all the required s/w in the system. Now we want to automate the process by using Ansible.

So here is the question: Can all the manual installation, setup be automated through Ansible?
Does Ansible supports Windows servers as well?
To start up where can get the installer?

Regards
Nibedita

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My US$0.02: You will be able to automate the installation and configuration of your software, but may be you need some external tool, like Foreman or Cobbler, if you want to also automate the provision of bare metal machines. If the machines are VMs in a cloud (like OpenStack) should work flawless.