Unable to install software on Windows with v1.9.2 or v2

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Hi all,

I’m getting started with Ansible with the aim of managing Windows servers. My control station is running OSX Yosemite and the target servers are Windows Server 2008 R2. I am testing against a server running in VirtualBox on my laptop.

I prepped the server by:

  1. Installing Chocolatey (v0.9.9.8)
  2. Using choco to install Powershell 4
  3. Running the prep script referenced in the Ansible docs

I started out on my control station with Ansible 1.9.2 installed with pip. I got around the CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED issue by using the fix-ssl.py callback plugin. Running simple tasks like gathering facts and pinging works. I added a win_chocolatey task to a basic playbook to install JDK7 on the target machine and it never finished. Upon looking at the logs, I could see choco was sitting at the command line waiting for user input (which it obviously wasn’t going to get) - it was asking to confirm execution of the install script.

I saw there has been a fix applied for that (passing -y into the choco command) but it doesn’t seem to be available under 1.9.2 - I only saw it under the devel branch. So I uninstalled the pip installation of Ansible and cloned the repo and now run Ansible from source. But now I’m back at the CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED problem again as the fix-ssl.py workaround doesn’t work. The callback API changed and I don’t know how to update it.

I guess there are three things I can do from here, in order of preference. Can someone help me to achieve one of the higher preference items?

  1. Find a published version of 1.9 that I can install with pip that has the choco fix (I guess this one isn’t very likely!)
  2. Rewrite the fix-ssl.py callback to work with v2
  3. Keep using 1.9.2 but manually edit the win_chocolatey module to apply the choco fix
    Any help here would be muchly appreciated!

Thanks,
Matt

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Hi Matt,

If you create the a directory name “library” in the same level as your playbook and copy the win_choclotey.py and chocolatey.ps1 files from https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/tree/devel/windows, the playbook run should pick up the new version of the module.

  • Benno
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Hey Benno,

That worked against v1.9.2. You effectively gave me my preferred solution. Thanks!!

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my hero!